2023 | Ellen Dubreuil

During my residency at The Museum of Loss and Renewal I was writing, keeping a sketchbook, reading and researching, making mixed media work, and wandering to get to know a landscape that was foreign to me.

Recently, I have been examining collections and museums as a sort of collective unconscious, and as a way of managing loss and longing. I used the time, space, community and library at The Museum of Loss and Renewal to continue my exploration of the human (and my personal and familial) impulse to collect, to save and salvage, and to place sometimes seemingly unrelated objects and images next to one another to tell stories and conjure magic.

I am interested in the energy and memory of objects, images, and places, and the stories the world around us tells us if we pay attention. Time in Collemacchia allowed me to examine these ideas more closely.

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