Start: December 4, 2026 10 a.m.
End: December 4, 2026 4 p.m.
Location: Art and Journalism Building
Breathing Out Sighs turns the viewers’ attention to the quiet vessels and memory of home. Including the moments, we spend inside houses where we embrace comfort, calm, warmth or the mundane. Just like abandoned homes we may release a sigh, one of longing, notice or while standing with clam. Much like a house we are constantly in a state of construction. A home isn’t finished when building is completed it continues to change and settle with time. It is altered by its occupants and surroundings. At a moment’s notice this house can be gone but the memories remain. The way a house is built can be compared to the way we build relationships, piece by piece, and those relationships are just as fragile. What is important are the moments between and how that time is spent.
This Exhibition utilizes sculptural and craft techniques including fibers, stained glass, ceramics, and printmaking to refabricate abandoned homes and objects found in spaces we occupy such as windows, keys, appliances, and rugs to support the notions of home and comfort. The interdisciplinary work is great in a learning institution for showing students how the materials and techniques can be elevated and utilized as tools in a finished project to support a concept. Everyone has a connection to home. My connection is one of constant relocation and searching for what home is while convincing myself it’s the communities we surround ourselves with. Craft elements came into play with the communal aspect reflecting on the impact of community in craft and how many of those activities historically place in groups. The structures in the work hold a visual importance and we created from based on actual abandoned homes. Buildings that contain history and someone’s memories. A place that was once comforting now sits empty and calm letting out those sighs for attention. I contemplate what happened to these structures that left them empty but some still full of possessions. This exhibition is am homage to all the places we have all called home, the moments we stand in front of the fridge grabbing nothing, time spent at the stove cooking for our community, or how difficult it can be to obtain a tiny piece of metal that unlocks it all.