Cross-Continental Inclusions: An Elegy, 2025
Wood (walnut and oak), microscope slides, resin casts, stoneware, hair, glass, monoammonium phosphate and alum crystalline structures, 7” x 89” x 1 3/4”
I explore the line of continuity between my father’s life and my own through acts of material exchange. It is a ritual of cross-continental transferal that bridges the expansive distance we now share.
It is a distance of geography, and of time. Of sound. Of space.
I excavate artifacts from his grave and offer them a new life of relative permanence in stoneware and porcelain. Fragmented, they reveal a material archive; impressions where presence meets absence. The original objects are cremated, leaving only traces and dust behind.
I look both outward and inward for evidence of his existence. I suspend it in resin and mount it on microscope slides. I engrave his voice into glass. I grow crystalline structures on cast leaves from his grave, watching them slowly transform.
Here, nothing can disappear.
Many thanks to Adam DeSorbo for constructing this elegant shelf to house my work.
All images on this page credited to Adam DeSorbo.