My couch (affectionately known as The Couch) and vanity (my mother’s before mine), both of which I dearly love, have weakened beyond use. Reflecting on how I acquired these pieces through collection and inheritance, and carried these pieces from place to place, I realize that I consider them parts of my own being. In their decay, they are signifiers of my own aging process.

House//Hold is an installation exploring how our bodies relate to our home spaces. Utilizing materials and furniture sourced from my own home, House//Hold reflects the physiological interactions and attachments that form between humans and objects, and the methods we use to ultimately detach ourselves from our objects. The specimens I collected from The Couch attempt to preserve cross sections of its physical experience. By dismantling The Couch and The Vanity further, I distance myself from them as emotional fixtures in my life and reconcile with their death. Imparting remnants of my own body incorporates my own deterioration.