The Mourning, The Marking, The Working No. 1 - 3
2024
No. 1 Water channel, electronic voice phenomena caught in conversation with the specter of Yoshi Endo (9.29.1997 – 10.24.2016), Yoshi’s underwear No. 2 Water channel, electronic voice phenomena caught in conversation with the specter of David Kenneth Gardner (9.11.1940 – 9.17.2022), David’s gold fillings No. 3 Water channel, electronic voice phenomena caught in conversation with the specter of Ethel May Gardner Schwartz (12.2.1897 – 9.26.1992), Ethel’s diaries
These spectral interviews and dynamic materials serve as a test of media clairvoyance—medium as medium. Filtered through the lenses of affect, geography, material, and the vernacular of the spectacular, I reach out to the specters that accompany me through the objects they lived in that now live on with me. These materials act as a conduit for the spectral appearance, collapsing time through medium, serving as an anachronic effigy to those I have loved and lost—a demonstration of the poetics of quantum entanglement—spooky action at a distance.
