home is where the _____ is

for my final installation in north st louis, i placed a pile of petal shapes on a found chair at the historical site of pruit igoe, which is considered one of the greatest failures in modern housing. the chair was found in a makeshift dwelling that exists on the site off cass avenue, by what is currently a power plant. on the petals are written excerpts from a list of personal memories of home, hopes of my future home, and the word "home". the following short video is an animation of the wind stirring and carrying the petals away. this project was a way to respond on a personal level to a rich historical site filled with social and political implications. my personal meditation on the concept of home is able to touch the surface of a home destroyed, and further, the history of those who had lived there.





this installation came about through a previous and more laborious process of printing a series of etchings, in which the petal shape lives as handwriting and an embodiment of form and color.



-katie osburn