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Departures specifically relates to my family and often to my years spent as a runaway during my late teens. While incorporating playful elements, this series focuses on loss and catharsis. My first idea for Departures was derived from a particular memory. At 8 years old, while playing hide and seek in the funeral home that my grandfather owned, I ran into the foot of a corpse lying on a gurney. My grandfather was a coroner for many years, and I sometimes felt guilty that his close association with death was frightening to me. In some ways these feelings colored my world view as a child. The deaths of friends and family are the starting point for the work in this series. Some of the pieces reflect specific loss, as well as childhood memories, family myth, and my chronic insomnia. |
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They lived in a house with a pipe organ on a street that shared their
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