She Keeps the Light Off
Ongoing series, 2025-
This series observes the life of a 95-year-old woman who is aging in place. She knew my grandmother, and in a fragmented way, caring for her sometimes feels like an extension of caring for my grandmother, if she were still here.
She no longer plays golf, but spends hours playing a card game on her iPad. She is no longer part of the Ikebana Club of Richmond, but the flower frogs and pottery vessels she made remain as traces of that part of her life. We occasionally make an arrangement together.
The work considers aging, solitude, inheritance, and loneliness through the objects and remnants of a life in a home that has, for the most part, remained frozen in time. These objects remain familiar, even as time passes and her relationship to them changes.
