To Sell A Home

In August 2022, I said a final farewell to my grandparents’ home in which they lived for 56 years. Here, they raised my mom and aunt, hosted guests from around the world, entertained friends and neighbors, reunited with family living in other countries, loved their grandchildren, and found much happiness together. As I walked through the skeleton of their sold home - painted stark white to appeal to more buyers, 30 year old blue and white linoleum floors covered with ugly grey laminate, walls empty, and furniture gone - I was struck by a flood of memories, sounds, smells, visions, feelings, tears. I imagined the cabinets filled, the walls decorated, the shelves stocked, the windows dressed one more time. Will the house remember? Will I always remember?

In collages that merge photographs and painting, I hope to explore my own memories of the space that was my grandparents’, while honoring the universal experience of grief and loss that accompany the sale of an impactful home.