Hold Me, Let me go

These videos are a response to the meaning and sentimentality we project onto material possessions. I explore what it means to destroy objects of personal significance, interact with them with my body first, get to know them with my skin, and then truly let them go. Irony in the final installation is intentional. The remnants of these deconstructions, projected directly on top of, become a meditation on the fact that even when we let things go, pieces will still remain. Both humor and sensuality are present in the videos as I feel it is important to show all sides of my interactions with these material possessions and the multiplicity of their meaning. I hope to show these works as an act of both empowerment, but also as a shrine to the fetishization of memory that I believe is inherently present in every human.