I'll Teach You (The Hidden Series) is an exploration of violence and memory within the domestic and familiar. Using folklore and fabricated nostalgia, I create objects that recall the spliced and distorted memories of childhood traumas. The works serve as an analogue to these events, acting as witness to the individual experiences, sometimes contributing to the narratives by combining multiple story fragments, other times representing an individual’s psychological state during or post-event.

Testing the bounds of youthful independence, a childhood friend and I would take walks along a pathway that curved through our hometown, parts of which were under the inner town highway and other roads. I remember my father issuing strong caution against this and I, bewildered, did not understand his warning that “people disappear.” On one excursion, romping on pretend horses, we came across balled up clothing along the path under one of the bridges, dusty from the surroundings. Only knowing a little about sex in the best of circumstances, one of us said out loud, “why didn’t they put their clothes back on?”