Swaying (2024)
Site-specific installation, Baltimore, MD 21217
Unfired porcelain on laundry line

The raw porcelain clay slabs are imprints of surfaces from the surrounding architectural elements of the site such as bricks, layers of rocks, concrete, and industrial metal finishings. This project is interested in the standard and universal architectural materials that become a part of someone’s intimate everyday life. It is a site for both public and personal experiences. Throughout two weeks of the installation period, the unfired clay objects continued to interact with sunlight, wind, surrounding noise, and rain. It slowly melted off the laundry line with rain and gradually soaked into the earth.

I lived in an apartment complex where hanging and drying laundry in the parking lot by hanging lines and racks was common. Especially on sunny days, people would be washing their bed sheets and blankets and leave them out under the sun and the parking lot smells like soft laundry detergent and sunburnt asphalt concrete ground.

Through these objects, I think about how the most industrially manufactured, impersonal, and dense materials become a ground for people to live and grow old—how they also age with the people and collect all touches and mundane lives of people.