Whispers from the Ghost House
MFA Thesis Exhibition 2020
Whispers from the Ghost House is a memoir, a love letter to the melancholic child now grown to an adult in a continuously displaced existence and always longing for a place to call home. What does it mean to have no home? For the entirety of my life I have moved from one place to the next, crammed into misshapen spaces, corners, and spare rooms, every instance temporary. It is in these places, and my escape from them, that my memories formed. I constantly sought safe spaces within unfamiliar refuges, in boxes and stacks, under trees and in books, to hide from loud voices and unstable existence. Now I seek the curious moments within these structures as they overlap, echo, decompose, and remake themselves in my mind. I hold these memories close to hear their whispers before they fade away.
Whispers from the Ghost House is about memory, both general and specific. I construct homes and homelike spaces to capture recollections that spontaneously arise as spectral projections on present reality, in other words, I create haunted homes.