Work Together (2019–2020)

 Work Together

Work Together comprises three projects founded from community sourced material. These materials were created from fall of 2019 to spring of 2020, during my senior year at Wellesley College, and the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although I didn’t have the language for it at the time, these projects recorded social intimacy and my interest in how people, in response to their temporal/spacial/social environments, form and make sense of relationships within these spaces.

THINGS I SHOULD HAVE SAID

A box of filing cards, holding anonymous admissions of things someone did not say that they feel they should have. These regrets, admissions, apologies, confessions, are aired and held both by the artist in the process of creating the cards, and by the viewer as they thumb through the 100+ responses in the box. This project is still accepting submissions at tinyurl.com/shouldhavesaid.

LOVE IS

A series of 36 screenprints sharing descriptions of how anonymous contributors define or feel love. Walking along the 30-foot installation the viewer encounters sometimes intimate, specific, tangible, or effervescent conceptions of love and care. 

Traveling Journal

In March 2020, following Wellesley College’s transition to online courses at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the senior studio art cohort longed for a way to remain connected despite physical distance. We came to the idea of a journal, mailed from one classmate to the next, as a repository for our experiences—whatever we may be thinking about or working on when we receive it. The journal is bound by hand and the covered in handmade paper repurposed from another project interrupted by the pandemic.

These three pieces embody and record a group of people at a particular time and place, without whom the work would not exist.