In spring of 2021, I created a collaborative, community memorial at the District of Columbia Arts Center as a monument to personal grief.

I posed the question: “Who do you mourn?” Responses from the community were sent in anonymously. I built stone-like plaques out of handmade paper to display each person’s response separately, resulting in a memorial that invited the viewer to consider both the impermanence of our lives and the certain grief we experience when tragedy arises. Each final piece is unique and substantial in thickness, yet made of materials which could be easily trashed. I collected these items from my own life, and gave them as an offering to my fellow humans. My own waste is a representation of myself; it amplifies my strengths, my weaknesses, my education, my naivety, my background, my lack of understanding, and my growth over time, and ultimately, that is all any of us have to give.

This catalog contains the photographs of all the work in the show.