i need to mark my spaces and i need objects that hold meaning to do this. moving/transitioning has not been easy for me; even though i 'came back to a familiar space' it seems like a different planet for me and i have felt so out of place... one of my ways of coping has been to try and make the space i´m living in (mom´s house) mine; i came back to a bedroom i had shared with a ten year relationship that did not end well and the space had so many marks from that part of my life... it was actually exactly like i left it and it felt like i was going back and not moving forward. it took me a while to understand i had to change the space, to realize it was weighing so heavily on me, that the objects in it had a very intense energy. at first i had no intentions of changing it becuse i had no intentions of staying in this space but i´m still here an i want to make this livable and positive for me while i´m here, while i find my own home.

the objects i have collected here represent simplicity, wonder and beauty for me. i have placed them on top of my grandfather´s library cabinet. i love it, it has a lot of shelves where my art supplies are. on top i have placed my beloved noguchi akari (given to me by my noguchi museum cowrkers when i left new york), a nest i found in the park, a jar of sea urchins i collected in the beach years ago, a jar with dried out orchids g gave me for mu birthday i think two years ago,  sea shells (i think one of my favourite things to do is go to the beach and collect treasures), an old medicine bottle (i love yellow glass and old bottles) i found in my grandparent´s house, and a a stone i brought from the well (at noguchi). on the wall i have placed an old painting i did about ten years ago and my petticoat from when i was maybe 2 years old. i look at that space whenever i´m distressed and i instantly feel better, and i recognize it as mine.

i find this little piece of clothing so moving and beautiful... my mom found it recently in a plastic bag among my grandma´s things, she had kept it all these years, who knows why... i plan to make some art out of it, i wish i could roll some ink on it and print it but that would ruin it. i´m thinking i might xerox it or make a stencil with it. possibilities...