Work Together (2020)

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

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.

We all have times where we didn’t say something we feel we should have. If you could go back to that moment, what would you have said?

Responses collected anonymously online from 28 October to 14 December 2019.

Submission No. 1: If you have time for me, why didn’t you have time for him?

Submission No. 27: I will never forgive you for what you did but I can’t imagine life without you in it.

Submission No. 75: i fucked up

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 covered in handmade paper repurposed from another project interrupted by the pandemic.