Our House Swallows Moths
“This hollow cave is now stained by our family and my family before us….This home has soured...”- Esme
“If we are all echoes of each other, which one of us is the source” - Oli
“This house is alive, however its breath is escaping. Its being replaced with something else.”- Stanton
“Is it better to be at home in exile or in exile at home?” - Vi Khi Nao, Fish In Exile
Our House Swallows Moths is an almanac composed of 48 primarily handmade fragments from the timeline of a four-person family. This family portrait surveys the cyclical nature of time as moments oscillate between mundane and poignant and echoes of experience lose their origin in this sculptural poem.
Shifting between the tangible and the psychological; scale and medium; and handmade and ready-made, Our House Swallows Moths presents the viewer with a Promethean-like experience. The viewer breathes life into the sculpture, blurring the lines between fiction and reality as authenticity is challenged. This confusion opens room for germination, in which an intangible life is able to take root as the nooks and crannies of feeling human merge with shared experiences.
Year: 2021-2024
Materials: hand-cast tin, wood, cotton, dryer lint, nylon, resin, aluminum, wire, scritta, rice paper, plaster, Rockite, porcelain, ceramic, polymer clay, latex, wax, starling pelt, Stephanie's hair, dried fig, soil, acid brush, expandable foam, Band-Aid, Arduino, LEDs, speakers
Dimensions: Variable