When All You Have Left Is the Rest of Your Life Installation

This installation, When All You Have Left Is the Rest of Your Life, was an exploration of the slippery slide between hope and grief. It was a way to process the grief and loss resulting from more than 20 years of chronic fatigue syndrome. Kitchen chairs, symbolized gathering places around the table of nourishment. One chair grief, the other hope, at the opposite ends of the space, there was no connection between them. There were two screens, one with videos of sunrises that I took for 30 days on Lake Michigan. When I asked people a symbol hope, many said a sunrise. The other screen had a video starting in black and white and ending in color.