How Quickly Things Fall Apart
Through the house’s corridors flows nostalgic breath, air currents disturbing the long settled dust. The material structures, contents, and activities create distinct sensations. The lingering smells from a well-used kitchen, the mustiness of disuse, the well-worn woodwork touched time after time, each life lived within creates and strengthens structures/habits/patterns, creating ripples in personal realities, tied to action and function. Individual rooms hold significance, but truly it is the moments in-between, colored by the sensual, that hold the longing of home.
How Quickly Things Fall Apart in Your Absence (in two parts), 2020
Corrugated cardboard, PVA glue, hot glue, charcoal, graphite, acrylic paint, joint compound, latex caulk, wire, acrylic yarn, LED spot lights, porcelain, oxides, pigment. Dimensions variable.
In Rilke’s words on the diffusion of the intimate memories of lost homes, “Indeed as I see it now, the way it appeared in my child’s eye, it is not a building, but is quite dissolved and distributed inside me…conserved in fragmentary form.”
