My work in this exhibition was inspired by these lines. I responded through my primary medium of recycled wood, found in suburban trash piles, renovation dumpsters, and basements of friends and neighbors. The fragments I assembled are pieces of many pasts, function implied by a rusty hinge or screw hole, yesterday’s color preferences revealed beneath flaking layers of paint. I am attracted to these rich patinas, and to the notion that the discarded can be reused. The materials here serve to memorialize the lives and dwellings of the cemetery’s inhabitants by creating a setting that suggests a Victorian living space and serves as a place to dwell upon the memory of those who have passed. As in many of my installations, the viewer is able to enter Living Room, and to be surrounded by ascending scraps of wood.