Shadowplay is an immersive installation that seeks to create awareness for the quality of life for patients in long-term care facilities. By encouraging the viewer to illuminate a medical privacy curtain, words are revealed on the adjacent wall as shadows. These passages are from my mother's journal, which have been laser cut onto the curtain. The use of my mother’s passages incorporates an anonymous, yet personal, narrative that is integral to the work. The privacy curtain and wheelchair signify a medical experience and illness, which provide context to the piece. The shadows relate to the ghostly essence of long-term care facilities as liminal spaces, as well as to lost and forgotten narratives of those who have passed away in these spaces.
