Untitled Laundry
90" x 100" 11min, Cyanotype on cotton bedsheet, wood platform, single-channel sound, 2025
Moving forces you to fully disassemble your life, and rebuild it, but that allows you to rebuild it in whichever way you’d like. You’re given an opportunity to do something different and be whatever you want to be and I think it’s kind of magical; having to put a version of yourself in the past and allow yourself to grow.
The Upstairs residency inspired me to explore the ephemerality of our existence, as well as the physical monotonous connection to a house. I focused on the idea of laundry because that is something that everyone experiences differently depending on their housing situation.
In my installation Untitled Laundry the cyanotype silhouettes of clothing printed on a bed sheet act as evidence and remnants of what was once there but are no longer. The way people dress and the clothes they wear is a personal expression of who they are and sometimes doing laundry can feel like washing away a part of yourself. Gathering pieces of you from around your room and shoving them all into a bin to get drowned and sanitized, even if it feels like you are losing something you’re also given a fresh way to reassemble these pieces. The process of doing laundry mirrors that of moving.
Exhibition History:
Upstairs 2025, Centretown Apartment, Ottawa, Canada
