artist | designer | maker | costumer
The Lost
Museum
The Lost Museum was a digital COVID community arts initiative in association with Creative Hub 1352. Using a mentorship outreach model, the project brought established artists together with emerging and student artists to create original works exploring the words lost, forgotten, abandoned or discarded.
In response to positive community reception, the Creative Hub reimagined The Lost Museum as the 2024 curatorial theme of the In Situ Multiarts Festival held in the abandoned Small Arms Inspection Building. The project involved 35 professional artists, 650 emerging and student artists across all disciplines, and 100 community volunteers. Each collection of images here allows you to enter one ‘room’ of the Lost Museum.
My role included concept, world building, design, construction, and production supervision of Immersive Sets, Costume, and Props.
Visit the digital museum here:
The Sorting Room
When objects first arrive at the Museum, they arrive in the Sorting Room, where they wait assignment to a collection / collector ...
Lost Letters
The warm metal doorknob turns in your hand, and you step into a room that smells of dust and old paper. Ink bottles clink in a corner. Ever send a letter that failed to arrive?
The Lost Library
As you open a book, a pile of sand falls out. The pages are warped from sitting at the bottom of the ocean. You smile and, accepting a cup of tea from the Librarian, you turn a page …
Lost Spaces | Architecture
When we left, we let the skylights crack, let snakes climb the stairs, water drip onto the basketball court, and strangers scrawl cryptic drawings on the wall. A racoon passes, unhurried. Birds flutter in the stairwell as the stairs creak and the house grows crooked. Wind whistles through a cold book. The welcome mat remains and the wallpaper peels. We locked the door, but the walls fell down. What happens to buildings when we forget them?
Lost Performances
What happens to dances that have been danced or songs no longer sung?
Lost Rituals | Alchemy
You peruse books on transformation, transmutation, evocation – various schools of magic. This is where the Alchemist practices, polishes and preserves rituals. Over there, bottom shelf … something is making a rustling sound …
The Preservation Portal | The Linguist
Where to words go once they have been spoken?
The Space Between
Where to things go that never physically existed in the first place? Lost video games, files, websites ...
Lost Umbrellas
A gust of cold air blows you forward and you stumble, reaching out, but the walls seem to have disappeared. A rush of wind lifts you into the air. You suddenly stop, hovering in a cloud of mist and umbrellas.
