Closing Ceremonies
Installation site: Chapelle de Ste-Catherine, Auvillar, France. On the pilgrimage route Camino de Santiago. 2023
CLOSING CEREMONIES
Collaboration with visual artist Leslie Kerby
Sculpture and Projection Installation
Art Take Over at Westbeth, former Synagogue Space | NYC | 2024
Chapelle de Ste-Catherine | art residency with VCCA | Auvillar, France | 2023
ChaShaMa Brooklyn Bridge Park | 2019
“Closing Ceremonies” is a contemplation of the nature of end of life rituals, memorial customs and how these customs might need to evolve as space in cemeteries fills up and the changing climate complicates what we can or should do for end of life customs. “Closing Ceremonies” is meant to evoke contemplation, conversation, and a reflection of our own personal relationships with our culture’s traditions.
Closing ceremony uses mobiles made out of vellum, bass wood, and string. The space if further activated by environmental projections in an extended loop meant to evoke a full day, and additional projection mapping in conversation with the building and it’s history through the generations.
Projection Mapping on the statue and the wall behind.
I used projection mapping to fill in the missing parts of the ancient fresco from the 13th Century. The original fresco was covered up by a newer fresco in the 17th Century. The new fresco is currently crumbling and falling off revealing the older art below. We worked with historians in the village of Auvillar to draw in what was faded away or covered up from the original frescos and then used projection mapping to “paint” it back onto the altar of the chapel.
