Multiple Factors
Multiple Factors consists of three bodies of work: 52 Weeks, Light in Nurture and the One Day Project
52 Weeks
The sculptural Installation 52 Weeks, was created as a memorial to the year gone by with my personal collection as a female caregiver. The subject matter and materials of this work are rooted in the daily care and detritus that comes with the life of a medically fragile child.
The sculptural floor installation offers fragility and softness in fifty-two organic forms. This body of work spans approximately 4x6 feet as a grouping and roughly 11x8 inches individually. Each piece has been created with the collection of one week’s worth of detritus from the weekly care of my daughter. Once the collection was completed a slump mold of the week’s waste was created in raw clay. From there, each sculpture is bisque fired, glazed and then high kiln fired.
The mass and volume are characteristics that float the repetitive nature of the collection and daily routine. The installation as a whole exists to convey the memory and memorialization of a year gone by. With the mass of fifty-two sculptures, I intend for the viewer to question what documentation of a year they are experiencing. The impression of weekly objects and the fragile forms they create, speak to my routine as a memorialized marker of time.
Light IN NURTURE
Light in Nurture is an extensive series of abstract photographic images. The large-scale imagery is exhibited on glossy metallic coated paper and framed in thin black metal.
As with the One Day Project, Light in Nurture exists with the use of daily waste material from medically fragile children. The context of this imagery was developed while considering the role of emotional labor for women. Carrying traits for this body of work are the emotion and gendered nuance within the series.
One DAY PROJECT
The photographs of the One Day Project refer to a 24-hour period of collection from mothers and their disabled children, located across the United States.
The subject matter of this work is the daily detritus or waste material that comes with the life of a medically fragile child. The female caregivers, mothers in most cases, fight for these supplies on numerous levels and use this material in hopes that it will be part of the puzzle to keep their child alive one more day. Without these mundane daily rituals, their children and mine would not survive. And with this subject, I’m left to consider the moment to moment that ends up being a tremendous weight in this type of caregiving.
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