You allowed the object of your love to become abstracted. And as one gets older the arteries harden. I thought I should let you know.
A gallery installation of ceramic reliefs, printed textiles, and 35mm slide projections. Tracing material and emotional inheritances drawn from the material archive of Entwiste’s late grandfather —papers, photographs, and transfer sheets from his final decade in New York. Acts of cutting, scoring, and excision deconstruct these materials, transforming them into new visual and biographical structures.
Archival envelopes pressed into wet clay leave textural impressions. Modified color slides—cut, masked, or inked—obscure figurative content to reveal tonal and textural abstractions. These slides are projected onto printed textiles derived from used Letratone transfer sheets, generating chromatic fields of pinks, cyans, greens, and browns.
The work metabolizes the archive. Touch, gesture, and the body persist within each surface: the hand imprints itself into clay, image, and fiber. Through these processes of incision and assembly, the installation explores how inherited materials can be reconstituted into new spatial and emotional forms. You allowed the object of your love to become abstracted becomes both excavation and renewal—a formal exploration of coherence within fragmentation.
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