double prints of discarded family pictures, woven with various patterns and techniques
Double Prints
in in process
in process
double prints of discarded family pictures, woven with various patterns and techniques
march 2020 - present
Jackson, Swain, and Macon Counties, NC
I don’t know what to do with my hands… (1-15)
gouache on prints discarded by extended family
2020-2021
currently on view @ Tracey Morgan Gallery
Hello -
I found another dead bird outside the school of art and design - possible sapsucker? They are laying on a paper towel near the east-facing courtyard door on the southeast end of the building and are in excellent shape. I was instructed to notify you.
I would be interested in photographing any of your birds which died from impact with windows as I’m currently doing a body of work about housing justice, safety, and access, and the recent photographs of birds which have perished due to our negligence in architectural choices has been an interesting development.
Thank you for your work, and if you would be interested in collaborating to make these photographs possible I would be grateful -
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Hi,
If there is any way that you could put your specimen in a freezer that would be great. I can come a pick it up, or if you could drop it off if It is convenient for you.
I love your idea of photographing the birds for the project. It seems to align perfectly with you research. I would be happy to help in any way that I can.
All the best,
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Thank you for your quick reply! Unfortunately I’ve left campus but I can go over before work tomorrow and move it to a freezer unless you are able to get there before me - I could bring it over to you on Friday any time or some time next week. I’d love to see your collection and figure out the best way to photograph some of your window-impact casualties, and possibly learn more about this phenomena – such a strange and sad effect of human intervention.
thank you for your generosity
Respectfully –
p.s. coincidentally, I just read “the Genius of Birds” last week! Apparently the alchemy in my library holds order picked the perfect time to make it available.
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___ is amassing a collection in a freezer somewhere at FPAC in case this happens again. It’s not often that people are willing to put dead birds in their freezer! I’ve copied her on this email in case she can add it to her collection for me.
I would be delighted to get together at some point. Just let me know a time that works for you.
I am forever fascinated with the domestic landscape. My understanding of my own limited perspective of this disintegrates the closer I get, like a mirage or a horizon line affected by the blue of distance. Our concept of home is flawed but we can no longer see the facade of the home, of safety, of shelter - “no one sees the barn.” To what degree have those adhering to shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders considered how the pandemic, systemic racism, and the culture of white supremacy affects those who have no home within which to shelter? Have oppressive practices slowed - of gentrification, of environmentally destructive land-use, of displacement, of enacting and enforcing laws which punish the conduct of necessary, life-sustaining activities in public, even when many people have no other option? Certainly not, in fact, these practices have become increasingly insidious.
These hopeful houses and their environments, made from my own and others’ trash, remind us that beyond a hierarchy of location, facade, and finishing, that many homes are constructed with the same studs and similar materials. The difference between public housing and “urban loft condos” is a negligible sum, and materials are commonly chosen intentionally to emphasize a politicized value proposition. Imperfect little landscapes, references to comfort constructed from industrial materials designating hierarchies of class and access surround these homes - asking us to consider what then, other than generational wealth, separates those with homes and those without?
gouache, screenshots of selfies posted by womxn and femmes in my instagram feed