Marked

Marked is a multi-sensory, interactive installation exploring how we mark space and time as well as how space and time mark us. Using visual, auditory, tactile, and olfactory mediums, this piece employs sculpture, photography, sound, touch, and scent, to build imprinted landscapes of time’s passage.

Photography, which makes the past visible with light, has become a means of visualizing fragments of time. In this context, the photographic elements in, Marked, imagine time in various ways. As sunlight, moving across walls and corners, color and shadow streaming through windows, and clouds overhead changing in form and hue. As bodies, growing and aging. As personal archives, detailing multiple histories. Taken together, the photographs imagine an intermingling of past and present, much like time exists in our consciousness. 

The sculptural, olfactory, and sound elements in Marked revolve around the domestic. Domestic spaces are often witness to our most potent experiences. They also form a relationship with our bodies over time, bearing the wear and tear of our feet, our hands, our skin, and hair. As such, this work centers in and around the frame of a house, an architectural form the viewer can enter and exit. By design, the house is incomplete, like memory itself, consisting of experiences remembered and those forgotten. It is a temporary structure, mirroring our impermanence as physical beings. Objects, sounds, and scents punctuate the present with pieces of the past, reinforcing the relationship between form and content, space and the body. Over the course of the exhibition, the space is also marked by the viewer in real time - footprints on the house floor, height on a blank canvas. This collaboration collapses the distance between maker and viewer, continually imprinted and imprinting.