It’s not that we want to understand everything, it’s that we want to understand something else.  2025.

A tableau for a missing character.


Many items behind the door and curtain are pulled apart, reused, and repurposed.


  • Mixed media installation.

  •     Sound components (Total run time of loop, 4 min 45 sec)
  •         Sirens
  •         Excerpts of Anne Carons, Task of the Translator read by Ashley Bedet



  • Physical elements

  •         1 ¼ televisions - ripped apart

  •         A hand falling apart, holding a window open

  •         Photographic transparencies

  •         That Ingebor Bachman poem 
  •                (untitled, and published posthumously against her will)
  •                Poem in question, translated, transliterated
  •         Bronze and brass (assorted)
  •         Detritus
  •         A thank you card
  •         A light table, restored
  •         Job Call
  •         A uniform for the absent position
  •         A light pulling through (blown glass, bronze, electricity, etc)
©Ashley Bedet