Trace, traced 2010
This “deconstructed painting” and print matrix was created by excavating downward through aged existing blue, pink, cream and brown house paint to plaster then to the original lathe and frame of an empty house. These layers were compiled over years and years of changing occupancy and an archive of living. I imagined the person that would have been the last to see each color- when it was new or when the paint was being covered up and changed as a fundamental act of claiming one's own space. This work questions the time and space between occupancy and vacancy as a search for an intimate through line and brings to the fore what is left behind in spaces we occupy?
Visually, the carved and pealed back traces are imagined arrangements of furniture and objects at a different moment in time. Some of the forms and shapes are imagined but some are based on actual furniture existing in my own home, this merged my lived and occupied space with this now unoccupied bedroom. This work navigates color as a signal for time and identity.
Carved walls of existing house installation
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Etching Ink rubbings of the walls on Mulberry Paper, 8 unique prints, Installation was on view for one day, Spring, 2010 for the first Rooms to Let.
