TOTAL LIFE SENTIMENT

prop

Carved yellow pine, silicone caulk, joint compound, wire mesh screen, screws, paint, refrigerator, 5 gallon bucket, 5 gallon water container, 1/2 gallon containers, milk crates, dough leavening bowls,  plastic bags, tin cans, paint cans, laundry basket, woven baskets, mason jars, dehydrated compost, charcoal, aluminum foil, rubber bands, bed sheets, salt dough, dried goods, black tea, leaves, 3’x6’x8′, 2026

domus

Carved black walnut, plywood, 1×2’s, silicone caulk, screws, paint, fireplace mantle piece, trash bin, fire extinguishers, dresser, utility pole trowel, ash, Dimensions vary, 2026

TOTAL LIFE SENTIMENT considers a place at once recognizable and entirely strange, where real and lived experience meet the authority of an apparition. At this boundary lies an opportunity in which everyday life is constructed, even staged, and made to be re-examined. The things present here, a hearth mantle, a refrigerator, a bin of dirty laundry, have been gathered from a distinctly domestic place. Between the surface on which they sit and what rests beneath it, lived experience atrophies into the vibration of ambition. Becoming a space of its own, this campaign of fantasy seeps into all that it contains. Now, who inhabits this store of the human? At a time when the hoarding of experience-cum-data reaches beyond the limits of our Earth’s abundance, it’s worth noting that the act of collecting is the making of a record of something as if that something is being lost. At home, in the quiet of privacy, we treat our things as we treat our selves.

TOTAL LIFE SENTIMENT was exhibited with Catskill Art Space in Livingston Manor, NY in 2026. Documentation images by Zach Hyman.