The work of remembering is to reintegrate parts that have been lost or seemingly destroyed by a trace of memory or forgotten moment in time. Abandoned organic and human-built structures are monuments to those passing through. These domiciles are sinking eulogies of remembrances. Bits of detritus and debris give clues to the regret as well as the resilience in one’s life story. Themes emerging from my work and mirroring these abandoned constructions speak of embodied wounding, traumatic memory, and the thread of shadow in failed mending practices. In my work, I am striving to visually recreate the act of repairing and making whole again through the alchemical process of burning out organic material in the kiln. In the spaces and materials that appear broken down and desolate, I mend and repair them as a way to transcend and heal traumatic memory. Seeking to put back
together what was figuratively ripped apart is inherently a part of the self trying to suture its own fractured frame a
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