What is Left

What is Left addresses the collisions between psychological and physical instability and natural disaster. 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 cycled response kept alive through an exhaustive need to continually repair what’s 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 re contextualize 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 speak to the inevitable alternation of disaster and recovery that characterizes human experience.