Site-Specific > "Revised Histories" Morris-Jumel Mansion

“The Act of Removal” is a site-specific installation at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, re-creating five different architectural sections of the museum out of carved erasers. Connecting to the history of its former residents, the work calls attention to the details that have been purposely left out, or that have changed over time through the re-telling and/or uncovering of new facts. The use of erasers as a material conceptually and poetically represents the removal of information, both through erasing and carving. On a universal level, this exhibition investigates the re-telling of history and the information that is lost in the process, while the implied action of erasing speaks of mistakes and of history itself.