“This body of work was produced over a six-year period, from 2015- 2021. It traces my post art school years as a young adult, as I moved across the country and back again, trying to carve out a sense home, purpose and identity amidst rapidly changing cities, jobs, and circumstance. Throughout these years, I took comfort in the objects arranged with care in the apartments that I moved between. Each time I moved, I found myself bringing with me possessions that held emotional value, rather than functional or monetary worth. As I moved from place to place, I lugged along with me my mom’s old Singer sewing machine and my dad’s guitar, though ironically, I knew how to use neither of them very well. Leaving behind microwaves and cheap plastic laundry bins, I instead brought with me handmade doilies from my grandmother, my best thrift store finds, and old CDs from my childhood, though I no longer owned the necessary technology to listen to them. I began to ponder the decision-making process I went through in packing for a move and wondered at large about the types of objects destined for prolonged ownership and the alternative value systems that resist cycles of mass production.”