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Feb 2022Penland School of CraftConceptual Prompt







Superfancy necromancy



A series based on an archival image of two girls and a third figure that may or may not be present.

The work explores communication with the dead as a form of projection. The figure appears across objects: mirrored, enclosed, multiplied. The viewer becomes implicated through reflection and proximity.

The series includes a collection of miniature brass tombstones, each stamped with a phrase borrowed from casual converation, transformed into epitaph. The tombstones double as ring keeps, placing a monument to the dead on a nightstand or shelf, where it quietly enters domestic routine.

The system leaves the line open.