to keep an object is to assert that the person or moment it carries forward still matters. to build an archive is to refuse the forgetting that time insists on. i grew up in a midwest family that kept everything. that talked about the dead like they were in the next room. that understood objects as alive. i make maximalist installations because minimalism was never going to hold all of that. - #archive #existentialmaximalism #queerartist #mfa #installation artpractice