anemoia

There are rooms I have never lived in that live inside me.

anemoia reimagines absence/presence through abstracted domestic spaces that give form to the invisible architectures shaping our intimate lives. This work moves through everyday objects to understand 'home' as something intrinsically possessed rather than owned, a container for processing universal feelings of longing.

The repeated gesture, the remade object, the reiterated form, and cyclical labor become a way of practicing care to move through grief. I developed a form of reciprocal generosity between the material and my own gestural touch. A small transgression against the aging body, an extension of its desire to repair and heal beyond its limits. Not to undo what was broken, but to make space for the complicated multiplicities of ourselves, revealed most clearly in fragments.

Thank you to my committee members, Brad Evan Taylor, Kaili Chun, and Jaimey Faris, and to Mary Babcock and Kate Lingley, for their spirit of generosity and continuous support. To my ancestors, for teaching me that to move forward is to move through the past.