I don't do well
Installation view at ‘All Shook Up’ Exhibition, June 10 - July 23, 2023, Massillon Museum, Massillon, OH
I don’t do well
Medium: Digital thermal print scans printed on velvet, cotton thread, vinyl, batting. Machine and handsewn.
Title Origin: A distorted transcription from a video recorded of my family singing “Happy Birthday” to my paternal grandmother, Carol, as she asks for help from my young cousin to blow out the candles.
Image Origins: Images from my cell phone documenting the day we brought my paternal grandmother’s cremains to the cemetery where both of her husbands, as well as her mother, family-in-laws, aunts, uncles, and nephew are buried. The cemetery images include my aunt’s hand on the one year anniversary of my grandmother’s (her mother) passing, the hands of my sister and cousin and the torso of my twin cousin; the grave of my paternal great grandmother; a portrait of myself, covered in grave moss.
Size: 45” x 37” x 1.5”
Year: 2022
I don’t do well - Thermal Collage, 2021
