everything that ought to have remained, 2011  

Site-specific installation for the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, NYC

everything that ought to have remained, 2011

everything that ought to have remained, 2011

This work is based on The Brothers, a series of large-format photographs I made documenting the expulsion of the aged members of a Roman Catholic religious order from their home on the grounds of a former military hospital in New Mexico. When I encountered the empty altar space at the Church I realized that a sculptural piece--emulating a memorial or shrine--would more effectively narrate, in a non-linear fashion, the deconstruction of the Brothers’ world depicted in the photographs, while at the same time seeking to restore to physical, three-dimensional presence the structures now lost.

 

 

The church provided a place spiritually close, but materially and geographically distant from the Brothers’ longtime home. The installation contained objects and images from The Brothers housed in custom-wood frames.

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