Accidental Remnants

Accidental Remnants explores the rearrangement of existence by creating a work that exists entirely in the viewer's mind. Viewers are presented with the concept of the “wandering viewpoint”, situating them within the surreal timescape as they shift between points of view, becoming voyeurs, the assemblage’s walls, and its inhabitants. Spectators transform into participants, thus becoming the work as they are invited to sit on the pedestals surrounding the three-dimensional floor plan.

Composed of hand-made objects, fragments of the domestic fluctuate in scale, material, and style. Inconsequential on their own, meaning is derived from their collection and conversations with one another as the sculptural components transcend from trash and debris into a miniature mise-en-scène.

Viewers are required to fill in the missing spaces with their personal memories and experiences as they make their own meaning of the work. As the sculptural reverberations are pieced together, a life and site that once was, is, and could be is formed within the viewer’s mind. Only then is the sculpture complete.

With no fixed arrangements, Accidental Remnants is designed to constantly take on different iterations as the hand-made objects can be installed differently each time, generating diverse and ever changing interpretations.