Memory Pavilion

The Memory Pavilion was created in collaboration with my dear friends Ethan Petersen and Katie Han, in response to the theme of ‘Sacred Spaces’. This installation was selected from a pool of dozens of projects, and was featured during the 2023 Frost Arts & Music Festival. 

When considering this exhibition’s theme, we quickly realized that themes of ritual and memory resonated between our shared notions of sanctity. As a place where rhythms of everyday life are performed, the home is the primary stage for these themes. For us, this makes home a space at once sacred and profane, a tension we wished to explore. Memory Pavilion frames space but does not enclose it—light and shadow, wind and leaves, and, of course, you, may enter and exit freely. 

The Memory Pavilion is a collection of built forms constructed from translucent fabric panels and simple domestic artifacts, arranged to create an implied space. The panels capture shadows of trees and people, and move with wind and touch. The artifacts evoke notions of domesticity without definitively tying the pavilion to a single time or place. Though the pavilion’s frame is static, the delicate movement of the fabrics is central to the experience of the space, evoking ephemeral memories of our childhood homes. The Memory Pavilion is both static and fluid, interior and exterior, familiar and forgotten.

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