This Side Up, Handle With Care, transforms the skeleton of the artist’s home into a precisely half-size wooden frame model that is half right-side up, and the other half upside down. Virtually twisting the home in the middle to create a vortex. The walls are constructed of piano strings installed at twelve-inch intervals, creating an opportunity for the home to be played with violin bows, plucked or as an Aeolian harp. While the piano strings offer audible and interactive elements, they also provide structural support to the piece by drawing on suspension bridge technologies. The entire structure resonates, so if you gently rest your ear on any part of the wood surface, you will hear the piece differently. The piece makes literal and metaphorical reference to the nature of cohabiting: the pleasure, tension and magic that resonate inside the walls of domesticity, and a home’s capacity to tell a story and record history.

“Her participatory sculpture invites viewers to understanding that “home” is an activity not a static object, something that must be made and remade through our own efforts.”