Cracks and Vines

Cracks and Vines is a video memorial to houses erased from the Mount Pleasant landscape. Screened as part of the Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen inaugural program, Place, the work draws from Milton’s fifteen-year history as a resident in the neighborhood, colliding the interiority of memory with the public site of the street.

 Composed of a series of still life assemblages, made from weeds and construction materials, the video is a recreation of wallpaper patterns that once covered the walls of rental suites Milton was forced to leave due to demolition. Exploring a tension between stillness and motion, permanence and impermanence, visibility and invisibility, the work attempts to unearth vines of memory into funerary bouquets that recall spaces now gone.