Ronna Nemitz

 Endless Numbered Days

Courtesy of Phoenix Art Museum. Photo: Airi Katsuta

I am a full-time caregiver to my mother.  I’m watching someone I love die. I’ve worried about this happening since I was nine years old. Now that it is approaching, I don’t quite know what to do. Everyday is a new aliment, a new normal. 

With Endless Numbered Days, I can see that my own life is limited. Death is no longer a remote possibility but a daily concern among a sea of concerns. My current work translates what is happening to me - my attempt to soften the transitions, to practice at death.

Endless Numbered Days

Digital video, sound, looped. Installation view of the exhibition: Breaking Up, 2021 -.2022

Phoenix Art Museum - Phoenix, Arizona

2021

“It was one of the first times in my life that I felt truly seen without being spoken to. That piece didn’t try to comfort me. It didn’t try to fix anything. It just sat in the pain and permitted me to do the same….it made me feel less alone”

- Mason Rabe, “The Day Art Saved My Life” 2025

Courtesy of Phoenix Art Museum. Photo: Airi Katsuta