YOU EXPECT TO COME HOME TO A HOME
This body of work is serotinous. It’s been activated by my experience with wildfire, and in the process of opening up, has revealed my family’s relationship with fire and storytelling, in many ways mirroring Oregon’s troubled history with fire. Over the series of a few months I spent time on the phone with the women in my family. Through these conversations they described some of their painful intersections with fire and loss.
My work considers what loss looks like by examining cultural practices of mourning and grieving, the emotional weight of objects that make up our life, and the pressure point between forest lifecycles and the permanence of homes. This has been applied to the work by referencing matrilineal storytelling practices. The work centers the lived accounts of the women in my family, and my own experiences with fire.
