Memento

Curtains Fall

White ink, wood, fabric, wood glue

4x2.5x2.5 inches

This piece was made in the memory of my good family friend Otis and the last conversation we shared before he passed away in 2019. At a family gathering in 2019 just a month before he passed and we shared a conversation at the dining room table discussing the future in which he gave me comforting words to ease my uncertainty as a neared the end of my senior year in high school. I used the white ink and fabric to mimic that of the table we sat at and the warped shape to represent the uncertainty I felt as well as the organic flow of the conversation. The fabric is also meant to serve as curtains on peaking slightly to representing the ending of our interactions in this life, but that it was also a satisfying conclusion.