"To take a photograph is to participate in another person (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability."
-Susan Sontag, On Photography
Death is not a comfortable subject to confront. We want to live and thrive, and are deeply saddened when we lose a loved one. Death is final, and what may follow is unknown. What is certain about death is what we leave behind: our belongings and our legacy.
This installation is a modern interpretation of post-mortem photography depicting the relationship between the physical and metaphysical remnants of life. The scenes are absent of a resident showing only what remains, while the fabric represents the ethereal vestige, the intangible memory friends and family may hold on to.
