What is Left

What is Left is an on going body of work that responds to parallels and collisions of psychological and environmental upheaval. I am interested in the human need to prepare for what cannot be prepared for, protect what cannot be protected, and fix what can only be momentarily restored. It is a cyclical response kept alive by an exhaustive need to continually repair what is irreparable.

I explore these ideas through the actions of deconstructing and mending tarp, a material woven with histories of concealing and obscuring evidence of internal deterioration. 

I recontextualize tarp from an emblem of neglect and failure to one that has been subjected to crisis and immeasurable pressure to perform a job it was never capable of doing. I emphasize its vulnerability and ornament its strength through a habitual cycle of preparing, breaking, and mending —to address the inevitable alternation of disaster and recovery that characterizes human experience.