Missing (4150 Avery Lane) - 2018

A home is more than just four walls and a roof, it is the covering that holds all your sweetest and sometimes, most painful memories. I have vivid memories of being trapped in my basement while a tornado laid waste to the centerpiece of my childhood. Now, what was once my childhood home is a vacant lot. In response to this destruction and upheaval, I created this piece as a way to associate my home and upbringing as a keepsake of my past self in my waking life. I meditated on each room of my childhood home and constructed a quilt. This quilt is in the shape of my home’s layout while also serving as a garment that can be worn. The act of me wearing this layout is to perform the destruction of my home and reflect on the trauma it caused. Just as we wear our past, I physically clothed myself in my most cherished memories while embodying the most painful ones as well.