Loving something John Doyle said to me: “I saw that you were working with Carl’s grandparents’ slides, documenting events for which you can have no personal memory but which maybe for that reason makes them seem like something forgotten.” Yes, that’s exactly it, John. Well said. I love it when other people explain my work better [...]
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there, there: an installation (part 2)
Posted in inspirations, installations, photos, spring 10, thoughts & feelings, tagged antfarm, art, artist, Carol Mavor, collecting, death, dinette set, forgetting, grief, hoarding, installation, kitchen table, memory, Milan Kundera, nostalgia, photograph, raleigh, sentimentality on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today I continued to clean things and transport them to Antfarm. I see the mailman just delivered my second slide projector, which is exciting! Now if only that cookie jar would show up… A couple quotes about old things and remembering: Forgetting… is the great private problem of man; death as the loss of self. But [...]
there, there: an installation (part 1)
Posted in inspirations, installations, photos, spring 10, thoughts & feelings, tagged afghan, antfarm, art, artist, comfort, curtains, dad, death, domesticity, earring, fabric, father, fiction, grief, Hiroshima Mon Amour, installation art, lies, memory, mourn, nostalgia, raleigh, vintage on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m working on my There, there installation for Antfarm. It’ll be up for just the one evening (First Friday, March 5), which is both exciting in its ephemerality and a little sad for all the work that goes into it. There, there started with an idea, well, really it was a feeling. The man who [...]
