matter of collapse / collapse of matter, 2024
New Haven, Connecticut, thesis exhibition in Yale University Art Gallery A crater, produced without impact. A page returning to the memory of its form. A cosmological model made of shrinking balloons. In the interior world of matter of collapse/collapse of matter, three scales of time unfold over the course of the exhibition.
The weather balloon, held down in its crater, shrinks, revealing the memory of impact created in the absence of impact; the paper dries, changing color and texture as the moisture evaporates into space; the larger than life page curves back to the shape of its metal memory.
The work made from information-holding-matter, addresses material memory across scales: matter and memory in a cycle of entropy. Ephemera ranging from the sentimental to the banal––traces of lived time––include handwritten grocery lists, love letters, medical bills and furniture ads. Informational bytes, a scrambled linguistics, re-formed into a field of relational objects and forces. Through de-structuring and reversing information and natural forces, this work opens up new realities.