You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make (We Fall to Pieces)
2017
painted wood and canvas
Studio Installation shot from summer 2017 residency at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. The work pictured is part of the ongoing project “You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make (We Fall to Pieces)”
You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make (We Fall to Pieces)
2017
painted canvas
Studio Installation shot from summer 2017 residency at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. The work pictured is part of the ongoing project “You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make (We Fall to Pieces)”
You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make (We Fall to Pieces)
2017
painted wood and canvas
You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make (We Fall to Pieces)
2017
painted wood and canvas
You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make (We Fall to Pieces)
2017
painted wood and canvas
You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make (We Fall to Pieces)
2017
painted wood
You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make (We Fall to Pieces)
2017
painted wood and canvas
You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make (We Fall to Pieces)
2017
painted wood and canvas
You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make (We Fall to Pieces)
2017

performance documentation

You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make (We Fall to Pieces)
2017
video still
Collection/Agency
2017 (ongoing)
acrylic on paper
Collection/Agency
2017 (ongoing)
acrylic on paper
Collection/Agency
2017 (ongoing)
acrylic on paper

I recently finished a 3-month residency at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. The below paragraphs describe projects I am currently working on started in Berlin.

You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make  “You destroy every special thing I make”. This was something my younger son said to the older, and became the starting point for the ongoing project entitled 'You Destroy Every Special Thing I Make . For this project I have made, and continue to make a collection of objects-wooden blocks and canvas pieces-that are constantly being shuffled into new constructions. After completion I record the destruction of each piece. Sometimes my children help to dismantle the assemblages in a variety of ways. The piece is evolving as a series of photographs of the constructions, installation of the blocks and canvas pieces, and ultimately an accompanying video collecting all of the destruction footage. 

 Collection/Agency This project is a collaboration with my brother Neil Fauerso who is a cultural critic and poet. The project is interested in the intersections between collecting and power and the ways that collections canonize and organize history, culture and nature. The piece assembles an ongoing collection of collections that draw from current and historical sources.