Remains, Fix-Aided (2016)
Installation of handmade wooden archival cabinet box (containing sewn organic matter, broken needles, abandoned threads) on collected autumn leaves
The installation features an acrylic cabinet containing the remains of the performance installation, Fix-Aided (2016), an on-going silent, persistent laborious task of collecting, mending, breaking, preserving, archiving and repairing. Exploring the violence, meditation and futility of mending, the archival courts the tension between letting go and attachment to the impermanence. In every broken remnant of nature, the emotional mending was marked by the use of thread to commemorate the repair mending and illuminate the damage. By visibly incorporating the repair into the new piece, the process results in a creation that seeks to celebrate the beauty in transience, vulnerability and resilience. Meticulously archived, each piece serves as points of departure for gaining insights into relationships among the self, other and our environment.
Autumn offers a parallel to the seasonal changes in our own lives, while nature reminds us of our own cycles of creating and what we can each individual release and let go. Remains, Fix-Aided (2016) invites viewers to reassess their unconscious tendencies, finding courage, strength and empowerment in new growth and renewal. Stranding the work in between a state of completion and continuation, the ultimate impotent, dysfunctionality and futility of the work re-enacts letting go and fixing as a ceaseless work in progress.
Autumn offers a parallel to the seasonal changes in our own lives, while nature reminds us of our own cycles of creating and what we can each individual release and let go. Remains, Fix-Aided (2016) invites viewers to reassess their unconscious tendencies, finding courage, strength and empowerment in new growth and renewal. Stranding the work in between a state of completion and continuation, the ultimate impotent, dysfunctionality and futility of the work re-enacts letting go and fixing as a ceaseless work in progress.