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Sail/Banner/Flag
Mixed Media
9 x 16 x 2 feet
2008
Sail/Banner/Flag
(Detail)
Mixed Media
9 x 16 x 2 feet
2008
Sail/Banner/Flag
(Detail)
Mixed Media
9 x 16 x 2 feet
2008
Claw
Mixed Media
5 x 3 x 1 feet
2008
Weight
Mixed Media
10 x 3 x 3 feet
2008
Slop
Mixed Media
2008
Workshop
Mixed Media
2012
Sash
Mixed Media
2008

After fourteen years living away from my hometown, I returned to Providence for graduate school. I spent a year living in my childhood home without my family, and was haunted by the empty house. After some time, I realized that it was the other way around: I was the one doing the haunting.

For this installation, I cleaned the abandoned basement which was once my playspace and first studio. I organized and arranged forgotten tools, and installed new sculptures made from all-white materials I had collected over years away (clothes, packing materials, collage, etcetera) to act as stand-ins for the ghost I had become.