Out by the 15th

I moved out of an apartment that I loved very much and lived in for a year. I had to leave because it was time for a change, but I needed a ritual for saying goodbye to the space. For the week leading up to my official move-out date, the 15th of December, 2021, I left a spell in the otherwise emptied apartment. It was a spell for the integration of shadows and ghosts, and it was comprised only of things that I made in that space, in the time I lived there. Each piece of writing or drawing was actually a spell of its own - I did a lot of healing and yearning over the course of 2021, and I did it through making, writing, moving and creating performance. The objects I left in the space were the artifacts of those spells, or the spells themselves (the medium is the message, baby). For the week of the installation, I came back to the space every day at sunset, and stayed until the light left the apartment completely. Because it was the darkest time of year, the whole “show” took place from about 4:30 to 5 every day. It got darker faster, every day, which was good “letting go” practice. On the opening night, friends came and shared songs, poems, and stories about transitions, ghosts, and leaving.

This page is under construction - I will be typing up versions of some of the writing-objects that were featured.