Pomegranate Cairn was a two-part installation sculpture project accompanied by a 45-minute looping sound piece existing on the fourth and fifth floors of 25 East 13th Street, Manhattan. With both locations serving as a studio and a gallery space, the division between practice and product was blurred until it no longer remained. The first half of Pomegranate Cairn lived on the fourth floor in a cubicle style studio space. An empty carpeted room one floor above contained part-two and its accompanying audio. Pomegranate Cairn developed over its lifespan in a state of restless motion, half-baked constructions, and lapses of failure, rebirth and reuse. Built over the course of a year, it remained in a constant state of flux even past its opening. Every attempt and edit to Pom’ Cairn remained stuck to its walls, shimmed in corners, scraped off, painted over, or gently placed. Pom’ served as a “crit” space, sculptural test site, communal hangout, and as a funeral pyre for my late grandmother, Cheryl.

It grew and lived over the course of a year as an ephemeral record of shared moments, ideas, and materials. It took only five days to take down.