Vestiges: Loss and Reclamation

Framed in reclaimed second-hand store frames, the overtly ornate floral arrangements echo the 17th-century Dutch stilleven, memento mori and vanitas paintings, which were painted to remind the viewer of the tentative fragility of human existence in a religious age.

These contemporary interpretations bear the accuracy of the photographic trace, serving as momentary references to our current circumstances. Today we exist in “unprecedented times,” as many have stated. We have witnessed over two years of a pandemic, devastating wildfires, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, political division, and violence by humans.

We need to reclaim and sustain our humanity.

Vestiges: Loss and Reclamation, no.1_ Archival pigment print_ 21.5" X 15.5"

Vestiges: Loss and Reclamation, no.2_ Archival pigment print_ 14.25" X 21.5"

Vestiges: Loss and Reclamation, no.3_ Archival pigment print_ 21.75" X 14.25"

Vestiges: Loss and Reclamation

loss of family,
loss of friends,
loss of time, years, months, and days,
               and days,
          and days...
loss of life,
loss of dignity
loss of self,
loss of identity,
loss of civility,
loss of decency,
loss of trust, LOSS OF TRUTH –
loss of democracy?
   loss of
       loss of
loss of hope,

loss of LIFE & LIVING,

loss of jobs,
loss of belongings,
loss of home,
loss of wildlife,
loss of seasons,
reclaiming life,

reclaiming living,
reclaiming time,
reclaiming identity,
reclaiming self,
reclaiming civility,
reclaiming dignity,
reclaiming decency,
reclaiming Democracy,
reclaiming TRUTH,
reclaiming hope,
reclaiming Beauty.

Vestiges: Loss and Reclamation, no.4_ Archival pigment print_21.5" X 16.75"