Dispossessed: On Grief and Insecurity
“Using the storage unit auction as a device, I invited viewers to step into a memory and experience it through an installation.”
MFA Thesis Solo Exhibition
April 2025
Gallery 5 San Jose State University
Dispossessed explores the grief of poverty and the trauma of losing possession of foundational objects that represent identity, history, and memory. Housing insecurity strips us of our ability to establish roots and denies us the safety of consistency and reliability. In place of a home structure, we revere the objects that make up a home. The things we carry from place to place affirm our existence and embody cultural heritage. When between homes, we look for a secure place to store our belongings, a third place between Point A and Point B to keep our family treasures. It is there that we experience vulnerability and the loss of property. This third place participates in the cycle of poverty that prevents us from healing and sustains perpetual states of survival.
Collateral Quilt
Collateral Quilt, 2025
Cyanotype and found object printing on found fabric, paper transfer
65 ½ x 51 in
Collateral Queen
Collateral Queen Self-Portrait, 2025
Archival Inkjet Print, Found Cardboard,
39 ½ x 41 in
The Third Place is Where Grief Lives
The Third Space is Where Grief Lives, 2025
Installation, consisting of 3 parts
Storage Door Archival Inkjet Photograph,
33 x 60 in
Readymade acrylic trunk with cyanotype soft sculpture,
30 x 17 x 18 in
Found boxes,
sizes vary
Auction Announcement
Auction Announcement, 2025
Archival Inkjet Print
48 x 36 in
“P” is for people and the p is silent
“P” is for people, and the p is silent, 2025
Cotton fabric, wire armature, cotton batting
10 x 5 in, 6 x 1 ½ in
