Between Us

2014

These works reflect the palpable distance between you and me.

I endeavor to prolong the feeling of contact between people and to charge objects with the task of doing so. Many of us hold onto an object as a representation of someone or something that is gone. I can think of countless keepsakes in my own archives - a silver ring several sizes too big for my own fingers, a wooden box of folded letters, the shirt of a lost love - all shined, chipped, and worn thin from repeated touch as I revisit the memories they hold. These articles function both as tangible evidence of someone’s presence and as the constant reminder of their absence. Cloth tells a story and keeps our connection alive.