brand new

brand new is a site-specific installation about the daily energy needed to keep on going, about the ability to recenter oneself after experiencing events seeping deeply into the psyche — a way of taking the possibilities back, re-enabling lost/forgotten/diverted directions, steadying on a path of one’s choosing, unabashed, enduring, brand new from all that has painfully happened.

My white coats from the cleaners come on hangers every time, regardless of whether I sent them with one in the first place. In general, I need a clean white coat every week, with some exceptions depending on how many contagions I encounter in a day. And in time, the hangers accumulate in my office growing into a pile of past tense — by the hundreds now — with the stains left behind sometimes in need of silver linings and safety pins, off and into thin air, untouched.