brand new is a site specific installation about the daily energy needed to keep on going, about the ability to recenter oneself after experiencing events seeping deeply into the psyche - a way of taking the possibilities back, re-enabling lost/forgotten/diverted directions, steadying on a path of one’s choosing, unabashed, enduring, brand new from all that has painfully happened. 

My white coats from the cleaners come on hangers every time, regardless of whether I sent them with one in the first place. In general, I need a clean white coat every week, with some exceptions depending on how many contagions I encounter in a day. And in time, the hangers accumulate in my office growing into a pile of past tense - by the hundreds now - with the stains left behind sometimes in need of silver linings and safety pins, off and into thin air, untouched.