Meeting name

Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum

Funder

Graduate & Professional Student Association

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2025

First page number:

1

Last page number:

28

Abstract

All Set for Next Week (2024) was a coffin‐shaped coffee table that formed the focal point of my Honey, I’m Home! Midway Exhibition—a core requirement for my advancement to candidacy, which I successfully completed. Revisiting the nostalgic domestic imagery of mid‐twentieth‐century sitcoms like The Honeymooners and I Love Lucy, this piece examined the precarious nature of home, shifts in gender roles, and the collective reshaping of mourning rituals during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Made from red oak, a wood historically linked to coffin‐making, the table evoked the memory of my grandfather’s passing while probing deeper questions surrounding inherited skill sets and overlooked funerary traditions. Informed by Gaston Bachelard’s phenomenological perspective on the home and Mona Hadler’s ideas on “destruction as transformation,” All Set for Next Week (2024) questioned established notions of comfort and finality, inviting viewers to consider how memory, grief, and identity intersect within ordinary domestic spaces.

Controlled Subject

Art; Installations (Art); Exhibitions

Disciplines

Art and Design | Furniture Design

File Format

pdf

File Size

7300 KB

Language

English

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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