The Transience of Things
by Sarah Girner
May 4, 2009 - May 31st
Pratt Institute CCPS Gallery
144 West 14th Street, NYC

The estate sale marks the final moment in the life of the suburban home: it is the last time the house exists in all its parts, with rooms and objects intact in the way the owner intended. A rupture - a death, a divorce, a move, usually precedes the sales. The rooms exist in a suspended state of reality – a convergence of past and future rooted firmly in the present. The details of a life can be pieced together by means of the objects, which have been left behind. We don’t realize the impermanence of things and it is ironic that the silk plants and prom dresses not only outlast us - they encompass our memories.