A Short Film
A Short Film
Repurposed and reconstructed taxidermy forms, video projection of ocean waves with audio, movie screen constructed out of articles of clothing, including men’s work shirts, women’s nightgowns, and bed sheets.
Northwest Gallery - Powell, Wyoming
2019
Losing one’s parents is disorienting. I thought if I could define it somehow that it might cease to be so uncomfortable. That was wrong. Grief breaks you. The many competing forces takes what you will never experience again. Your childhood home. Your dad’s voice. Your mom’s unmendable sadness.
Memory is an unpredictable and encompassing current.
wave after wave, after wave.
Crash into me.
Let me be the place where your tired body comes to rest.
