Hot Cashew on a Tin Roof
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MFA Thesis Exhibition, Feb. 14th, 2014
The Grandparents
If He Offers Her Apples:
IF HE OFFERS HER APPLES
IF HE OFFERS HER APPLES IF THEY CANNOT SEE IF SHE IS GOOD WITH HOW CAN SHE EAT THIS MEAL
& GEMS* IF THEIR BED THE SAME* IF HE STAYS HIS CHILDREN* IF HER HE MADE FOR HER? WITH DELICATE CARE*
IS WARM* IF SHE OUT LATE* IF THEIR SKIRT IS WRINKLED* IF WITHOUT TAKING AWAY
CANNOT HEAR* IF SHE EARTH IS DARK AND WET HE SMELLS HER HAIR* IF HOW CAN HE BRING IN OR GIVING UP THEIR
OFFERS HIM MIRTH* * IF THEY EAT PLAIN CAKE* THERE ARE TEARS* THESE FLOWERS & FRUIT? OWN ESSENTIAL PARTS*
Details:
Video Quilt:
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These mirrored scraps and patches combine hand drawings, home video, sewn quilt pieces, and super-eight vines. The video weaves two inter-familial traditions: the first, blanket making (my grandmother made eccentric tapestries, idiosyncratic stitch samplers, and colorful crocheted blankets) and, the second, short films (my father captured between 1968 and 74 using super-eights).
Goodnight Moon, before they lay the tar above your eyelids
Elements of this show are diaristic or imaginings of time and spaces spent below a roof; in each: celebration, joy, dilapidation, and darkness, with wonder and memory built around all blossoms kindled and broken there. They are explorations of the tenderness, which forms below intimate patterns of daily ritual. They are celebrations of human connections, of healing, which through loss, allows for new wholeness, and of laughter with its regenerative songs.