"I can't forget, okay?" No.2
Interactive audio sculpture
Vintage AT&T Trimline 210 telephone, electronics, wire, wood, and the artist's mother's cremains in a glass jar
20 × 28 × 8 inches; 00:18
Vintage AT&T Trimline 210 telephone, electronics, wire, wood, and the artist's mother's cremains in a glass jar
20 × 28 × 8 inches; 00:18
"I can't forget, okay?" No.2 detail
"I can't forget, okay?" No.1
Interactive audio sculpture
Vintage AT&T Trimline 210 telephone, electronics,
3 × 9 × 3½ inches; 00:18
Vintage AT&T Trimline 210 telephone, electronics,
3 × 9 × 3½ inches; 00:18
Here is an inconspicuous phone, not unlike the phone I had growing up with my mom. Pick up the phone and have a listen. You will hear a brief voicemail message my mother left me many years ago. My mother’s voice is one of those characteristics about her that lingers in my ear, like a phantom-limb sensation.
Winner of The Yards Award
32nd Annual Members Exhibition
DECEMBER 2, 2022 - FEBRUARY 11, 2023
This installation was first exhibited on a table beside seating for a domestic environmental installation (No.1). To integrate what is left of my mother's body, No.2 incorporates her ashes.