TerMinAL mA is a site-specific installation exploring female ancestral memory through heirloom objects. Descendants encounter mA’s remains in her cyclical tomb. The show includes more than twenty handmade pieces, including furniture, wooden boxes, quilts, poetry, embroidered linens, and a film. The artist embodied mA’s ghost in several happenings in the terminal, including community quilting rituals.
TerMinAL mA
is a poetic gesture in preservation. Travelers return home to find mother gone. But mother is here: transient permanent; the pieces she has left behind. Can you find her? Relic: bodily remains of a saint Reliquary: vessel for holding sacred remains Trousseau: clothes, household linen, furnishings, and other belongings collected by a bride TerMinAL: point of connection hub for departure and return medium for communication junction of circuits extremity endpoint mA: small electric current mother
