To reverberate is to echo, to resound with layered vibrations that extend and return, carrying the memory of their origin while transforming through space and time. Etymologically, to reverberate is to strike back, to beat again. To reverberate is to exist in motion, a cyclical unfolding where sound, energy, or action ripples outward, colliding with surfaces or bodies and rebounding with altered intensity. It is a phenomenon of connection and continuity, where each wave holds the trace of its source while generating new possibilities in its wake. Reverberate is an installation of objects that suggest a room. The room is created from materials that explore memories from my childhood. To convey how memories surface repeatedly over time, I stuff, rip, squeeze, press, dip, fold, and hang these materials until they shift. I am striking back at my memories. Beating them again with the force of their own radiating potential. I refer to this process and this work as a tremor: a reverberation of an initial event felt throughout a lifetime in the physical, emotional, and mental space of the body, family, and community. Memories move and weave into one another. The installation in its entirety is a tremor as each object represents a different memory, frozen still for contemplation.  These objects are presented in precarious or acrobatic positions that push the bounds of fragility, on the verge of falling and breaking but fossilized at the moment before.

Reverberate. University of Colorado Boulder Art Museum, Boulder, Colorado, 2021.