Inheritance
7-piece mixed medium, toxic, and deteriorating home decor mosaics. Over 10 years of expired psychiatric medications used in the process of healing from a lineage of generational trauma, neglect, and abuse.
“The pink tiny plates are from a set I inherited from my grandmother, who was a nurse in the 50s. The medications are unused expired prescriptions to treat my disability over the last decade.”
2025
Mixed medium on wood, glass panels, found frames, inherited porcelain plates, epoxy, and ceramic hanging sculpture.
Various Sizes
Installation Image I, Inheritance, 2025, mixed medium pill mosaics
Installation Image 2, Inheritance, 2025, mosaic with empty frames
Inheritance, 2025, Mosaic blue frame pill mosaic with childhood photo
Close up corner of Inheritance, 2025, Mosaic blue frame pill mosaic and childhood photo
Inheritance, phthalo green pill flower panel, 2025
Inheritance, 2025, Green pill mosaic frame green with childhood photo
Inheritance, 2025, mixed medium pill mosaic flower panel
Inheritance, 2025, ceramic blue wall hanging pill mosaic
Inheritance, 2025, Inherited tiny pink geese plates pill mosaic
ten years of expired medication
The Process
Theres something dark and comedic about the cost (money/trauma) of all these pills.
a few examples of leftover personal expired pharmaceutical medication from years of treatment
open leftover orange bottle pills, personal expired medication from decades of medical and psychiatric treatment
the orange tops of familiar cvs pill bottles, some leftover medication
some cvs pill bottles from personal treatment for health conditions
close up of orange pill bottles and some pills, expired medication from decades of medical and psychiatric treatment without lids on
some pharmacy caps from cvs of leftover personal expired medication from decades of medical and psychiatric treatment
the orange tops familiar cvs pill bottles, leftover medication