installation

the shore is a birthdeathday party, 2024

Site-specific installation at Please Y. S. in Brooklyn, NY. Most materials used are imbued with the following significant memories— Atlantic surf clam shells from Fort Tilden, NY with Matt Evans, oyster shells from a feast with Serena Stucke, Dan Tesene, Alec Fellman, and Maria Takeuchi, tea candles, sand from Marsha P Johnson Park with estrellx supernova, carnations, wind, rattan tray, Julia Anrather’s deer skull and goose, tinsel portal from gushes show with Nick cowman and Ida belisle, video from 1000 Steps Beach, California and Grutas Tolantongo, Hidalgo, Mexico with Matt Evans, soundscape: glass tide field recording from Dead Horse Bay, NY and guitar drone from gushes “Game One.”

the shore is birthdeathday party is a site-specific installation in the sunroom of a historic Brooklyn home, former residence of Shirley Chisholm and the West Indian Day Parade headquarters. Inspired by Chisholm’s social work in childcare, the tropical culture of the Caribbean, and the artist’s reverence toward shorelines growing up in the Bay with archipelagic Filipino heritage, the installation regards the beach as a portal for sacred play where beginnings spill into endings. Visitors are given candles in clam shells, and are invited to stay for as long as the flame dances.