Stand In Series

Art Project: Stand In

Object Poems: the Stand In Series

Project Description:

These object poems express ineffable, personal experiences. They are often made on site and permanently dismantled at the strike of a show. Sometimes, the experiences mapped through these sculptures are poignant and moving; sometimes they are awkward and difficult, or hard to recollect at all. A wink, the last visit with someone, a sudden convergence of events, the history of a place. your interior state as you stand there. Objects are paired with phrases in an experience, and paired through a legend presented in or by the sculpture.

In a sense this work is about the presence in objects, and the way presence opens up and closes down in the course of living a life, or the movement through a day.

These Object Poems began as smaller, formal assemblages that can be stored, shipped and presented for exhibition. More frequently they are 8 foot tall sculptures made with available objects pulled out of the storage spaces related to or on the venue site: Hannah constructs the legend and builds the physical sculpture on site for the exhibition, documents it, and at strike, dismantles the work permanently, and returns all objects as found.

The work then exists as a print of the image and the legend together, which can be purchased as such. Contact Hannah with inquiries and questions.

I made this series after witnessing humans, family members and a close friend with dementia, being separated from the objects of their lives. This project is my way of processing such losses, and is both an exploration of the lives of things and their histories as companions in our homes. Also, I find myself aware of sheer volume of items we live with, and contend with during life transitions and inevitable upheaval. As this pile up happens on one end of the production cycle and our civic duty to keep consuming because we can. Pairing the fleeting sensory with the material weight of our things, the interior with the exterior, is how I explore our human, earthen predicament.

These works, presented via garlands, pedestals, shelves and spindles. Larger temporary versions are often 8 feet in height built on a weighted armature. The work includes the sculptural assemblage and the legend that accompanies it. An photographic document of the final install paired with the legend is also available for purchase, printed as editions of five.

Larger Site Specific Pieces from this series have been exhibited at:

Washtenaw Community College Gallery, Ypsilanti MI
Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck MI
Ann Arbor Art Center, MI
Turd Hill Residency, VT

Smaller Formal Works have been exhibited at

The Drawing Center, New York NY
555 Gallery, South Boston MA
Scarab Club, Detroit MI
Barickuda Gallery, Ann Arbor MI

Please contact Hannah to learn more about the project.

Art Project: Stand In

​​Object Poems: the Stand In Series

Object Poems: the Stand In Series