Playing Dead, Detritus

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant.*
In 2018 my younger sister Hazel died suddenly and unexpectedly. In a moment my longest standing relationship, spanning seven decades, was altered. I was lost. And in many ways, I still am.
These still lifes are images of my dead sister’s belongings and funeral detritus. I am attempting to connect with someone who is gone. I am reliving my relationship to her through her belongings and my memories. While the work is intimate and personal, the aesthetic presentation offers a space in which viewers can contemplate the larger themes of mourning and mortality.
*Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking