Artist Statement for

Lingering Corporeality

observers, archaic folklore, voodoo, eyewitnesses, messages from the dead, discarded childhoods

You glimpse a sliver of a figure moving out the corner of your eye. Voices with an unknown origin emanate nearby, inexplicable and enigmatic. Ghost stories have existed for millennia, to scare, enlighten, or instruct. The spirits themselves exist to promote their history to an ignorant, participant audience, relaying snippets of the past or foreseeing the imminent.

In Lingering Corporeality, I recount my own encounters of apparitions that yearned to be heard. However, they are not just terrifying tales, but also contaminated with the clinging, persistent trauma of the incidents and adjoining memories. We remember an event from the most recent instance we divulged it; in this manner, the stories are both permanently perserved but detached and mediated from the moment described.

The viewer connects to these multiple memoirs, perhaps recalling comparable experiences or previous taes transmitted to them. The objects surrounding the installation are from a domestic environment, where most of the original events occurred. These articles and relics are proxies for the experience, much like the narratives themselves are for the happenings. The anecdotes prophesize a future dogged by confused histories, deciphering the ephemera of the space and inhabitants in innumerable points in time.