House as leaky vessel
Tillinghast marsh, 2024
Hand painted and dye sublimated prints on reclaimed curtains, aluminum 10x10’ frame
A house-like structure made of barely-there fabric screens, this installation makes visible ways in which human domestic space is nested within larger ecologic and planetary systems. The fabric is composed of alternating blank and painted panels constructed from used curtains. In their original setting curtains kept the world out, but here they serve as a permeable boundary letting light, wind and the larger landscape into the space. House in this context is related to the word ecology, derived from the Greek oikos (eco-) meaning home or dwelling place.