DIRT ELEGY

This work is about remnants of the past, loss and endings.

Objects that usually define and anchor us quickly lose their comfort and intimacy when they are removed from their ordinary context. Their substance and their power are rendered meaningless. The material stuff with which we surround ourselves becomes worthless, and the objects become ghosts of themselves.

Dirt Elegy not only devalues the separate objects but also unifies and transforms them into a meaningless assemblage that further undermines their worth as functional or valuable things. They become a worthless souvenir, a shadow pointing towards the past.