This work addresses the distortion of memory and the changing of states and being over time.  The structure consists of four mats, sheer fabric from an old wedding dress I deconstructed, two threads, and four images that have been drawn in graphite.  The images reference four different days in Mead, my dorm building at the time.  I revisited and recreated images from October 5 2018, October 12 2018, October 5 2019, and October 12 2019. Part of my practice revolves around capturing in-between, easily forgotten moments, and rendering them repeatedly in the weeks following.

I placed the four graphite images on a structure that can be viewed from above and from different angles. The material my drawings are on is scrap from a wedding dress purchased following the loss of someone from my life that I held dear. 
 I deconstructed the dress on October 5th 2018. I transformed the rest of the wedding dress into a shirt on October 12th 2018. I juxtaposed these quiet, yet intense moments from these two days with two other days in the year following, when my state of being was different, despite existing in the same space.  I still lived in Mead and continued working with the same material, and could feel the weight of time in the physicality of both.  I also created the graphite images on top of the box the fabric scraps had been stored in, picking up indents and creases that had formed on the box over the course of the year.  The work attempted to soak up every physical indication of time and acknowledge the fragile tangled emotions of loss, acceptance, and growth.

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Sophia Silane