Components [of a Place] (2023-ongoing)
What do I keep from the places that
I hold dear?
Components is concerned with places
from memory, morphed by time, bias,
trauma, and nostalgia. In this
project, I use the unreliability of
my memory to create artifacts based
on places from my life.
Through sculpture, I experiment with
decontextualizing domestic and
architectural elements, highlighting
the way my memory immortalizes these
objects, and in turn,the places from
which they were harvested.
The first part of this work is
breezeblocks. Usually seen in dozens
scaling the side of a building, each
of these breezeblocks is instead one
of a kind, the different patterns
borrowing from traditional bricks,
spacial ornaments, as well as abstract
and nostalgic icons. In their singu-
larity as well as their design,they
shed their accuracy and functionality
and instead become ghostly
representations of themselves.