MFA Thesis: Erie, Kansas

Below is the “Erie” installation of the MFA thesis exhibition “Excavating Missing Memorabilia.” Each image of a close-up carved tile is accompanied by a short poetic prose describing the memory it exhumes.

  • Type MFA Thesis Exhibition

Erie, Kansas / Population 1,087

We are playing with Play-doh. I grab the white and show everyone how my art teacher taught us to make a cow using 7 balls of various sizes. Then I use black to give him eyes and spots. I think he looks just like the cows outside except the ones outside are brown. We don't have any brown Play-doh though.

My brother has over a hundred Hot Wheels! He also has a mat with roads and buildings printed on it. We play cars for hours on that mat. I'm pretending to be a doctor. He says cars can't be doctors but I don't think I understand how to play cars...