Video Installation Art (2018)

Black Lake lives as a video installation art piece, creative non-fiction essay, and chapbook of poetry meditating on grief, loss, and the tenth anniversary of my father’s suicide.

tHE eSSAY

The Chapbook

Born from a collection of poems, the works are intimate yet leave room for the reader to breathe and map their own personal experience onto the text. Black Lake is both a metaphor for grief and a physical place that has been in my family for generations. It is where we’ve spent time together. Where Grandma Tootie and Auntie Greta cooked a pancake and sausage breakfast I can still smell. Where we’ve spread ashes. To be consumed by grief is to jump into a black lake. Here I am connected to generations of family memory, to loss.