An Ontology of Dust is an installation that questions the archive’s ability to remember without material evidence, leveraging the liminal space between matter, absence, and dust to highlight the fragility of legacy.

The installation is made up of imprints of the objects left behind by my late grandmother, their silhouettes sculpted into paper made with the dust collected in my house or pressure formed into transparent EVA.  Installed on a large row of windows with museum gel, the imprints slowly melt off the surface, unable to escape time’s interference just like the world behind them. The installation’s fragility, transparency, and impermanance leaves us questioning whether the intact preservation of memory is ever truly possible and if dust is our only true legacy.