A 5-screen video installation located on the second floor of an rescued house in Detroit. Owned by the Catholic church for 40 years and then abandoned, the house served men struggling with addiction and illness.
The images of the men loop, with no pattern or order. Each time the same man appears, what you thought about him changes because of who came before, he reminds you of someone you know.
Memories fade. Time slows and expands, distorts and distills. Memories just out of reach. Slow down, notice the liminal moment. Events from long ago overwhelm and consume. Is it the same man, only older? The meaning shifts. How do you remember?
In the reign of the imagination, the house and space awaken daydreams in each other.
-Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
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