Rememberance

When someone passes, our memories maintain that relationship and connection. Yet, if you have few or no memories, can you borrow people’s memories to create connection. My father died when I was four. The three memories I have were when he was sick and in the coffin. I wanted to explore the idea of memory in this installation entitled, Remembrance. I interviewed my mother, his siblings and others who knew him and created a sound scape of memories in the space. There were nine translucent panels suspended from the ceiling, with a video taken of a winter road to my aunt who I barely knew, that shimmered with the movement of the panels.   This symbolized the journey one needs to traverse to retrieve memories.  In the front of the room was an ancestral altar to my father, with pictures hidden in a wooden box only to be seen through a peep hole.  At the opposite end another wooden box for the audience to put the names of those they wanted to remember.