Over the past few years, the phrase “perpetual care” has become increasingly meaningful to me. It serves as a reminder that love for someone or something does not end when their life does. My current work seeks to embody personal loss, love, and the connections I try to maintain with both the living and the dead, the human and the non-human, what is inevitably taken away, what is borrowed, and what is transformed.
These connections take on a multiplicity of forms through photographing, casting, transferring, pouring, and embedding. Many of my materials are collected on my daily walks: fallen branches, lost and discarded materials, photographs treated as material of memory, and plastic flowers blown away and weathered over time from local cemeteries. These works serve as repositories of time and memory, sites of burial, ritualizations of daily life, and representations of the way I wish to move through the world and often struggle to.
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