Performing remembrance without site/sight, 10 minutes and 43 seconds

Water from the Aegean sea, unfired clay, suitcase, original poetry, recorded phone conversations with grandma and dad

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Suitcase, 2.5' x 2' x 1.3'

Stoneware clay, projector 

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Υδρία-κάλπις (water transportation amphora), 13" x 8" x 8"

Stoneware clay, audio transducer 

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Performing remembrance without site/sight  is one of three projects that make up my undergraduate thesis exhibition. For this specific installation, the performance is projected from inside the ceramic suitcase, touching on the relationship of cameras and video to family, memory and travel. At the same time, the ceramic suitcase parallels with the original, seen only in video filmed in GreeceThe audio accompanying the performance

This multimedia installation/ performance is inspired by memories I have not witnessed: while I was in Boston, my dog died, my parents got a new dog, my sister got into college, my grandpa died… Memories pass, life alters and I arrive at the aftermath. When I return, life has already adjusted to the change; I enter into a new life, transformed without me, ever changing even if I am not there to witness. In Without site/sight , an unfired vessel, inscribed with all of my unwitnessed/missed memories, tries to carry water over to my suitcase. Every time the vessel fills with water, the clay dissolves, slowly erasing the inscribed memories and mixing with the water it carries. Simultaneously, the water that manages to reach the suitcase slowly pours out, the suitcase failing to contain this memory of land and family. Regardless, when the memory vessel completely collapses, I zip up the suitcase and leave, with whatever remnants of home I manage to take with me. I don't stop trying, I don’t stop failing.