Cairn, 2024

handkerchiefs, cement, sand, plywood, hardware
16” x 16” x 52”

/kɛ(ə)rn/
noun. a pile of stones used to mark a path on a mountain or a place where somebody is buried 

After my father died, it took me a while to name the unrest I felt. It was disorientation, the sense that every molecule in my body had lost its north pole. Cairn (2024), is a monumental stack of cementitious handkerchiefs situated on a wheeled base. It is part reliquary, part signpost, and part reckoning with the instability of identity.