Summer Goth

Summer Goth is an artist book, a series of sculptures, and a site performance in a cemetery in upstate New York. The book is comprised of an original poetic text and a series of photographs.

The project is a metaphysical inquiry into the phenomenology of ghosts, and a critique of death and dying culture in America. Functioning as a poetic response to the Covid pandemic, it weaves in a critical inquiry into the history of the American rural cemetery and the idea of the Arcadian landscape. The intersections of land use, colonial critique, and metaphysics invite audiences to ponder thorny questions that are often repressed in the margins of our own consciousness, as well as in society at large.

Whose Histories Are Unmarked, 2021. Photographic print and text on cotton canvas ducking. 62” x 36” each.

Cohen Gallery at Alfred University, April 2021