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(spare him?)
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And from this video we learned: that the corner is the place where evil moms beat (or kill) their children if they did something bad :)
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- Welcome everybody to the gallery at Penn College.
Thanks for comin' out on this beautiful day.
Our visiting artist is Kay Healy.
Her community based artwork,
focuses on memories, both her own,
and those belonging to other people.
And she spent a great amount of time
researching and interviewing people
to capture those memories.
Her interviews are available for listening
on the computers in the gallery,
or on her website.
Her large installations have been on display
at the Philadelphia Airport
and the Central Library of Philadelphia.
And her installation called Coming Home
was purchased by the Pennsylvania Convention Center,
and is now on permanent display.
Kay earned her MFA from the University of the Arts
in book arts and print making,
and she's originally from Staten Island, NY
and is now based in Philadelphia.
Thank you Kay, for coming,
and sharing your amazing work with us.
Please help me to welcome Kay Healy.
(clapping)
- Thank you everyone for coming.
Let me know if you can't hear me.
I'm a soft talker, so just tell me to speak up,
if I'm talking softly.
Thank you so much, Penny, for having me.
This is an amazing gallery.
It's not often that you get this much space
to show your work.
I was telling someone earlier that
I've been making all this new work
because my studio's nice and empty,
and so I'm filling the void,
and it's been really great to show here.
And I'm so impressed because
Penny also installed of the work.
I just dropped it off and here it is, which is
(laughing)
a wonderful luxury.
Yes, a round of applause for Penny.
(clapping)
So, I started working with themes of home
ever since I lost my own childhood home.
It was a very, sort of, typical situation,
but my Mom decided to sell my house, on Staten,
my house, on Staten Island,
and basically it was this large house
that she no longer needed
once my brother and I had been moved out.
And she decided to downsize
and get an apartment in Manhattan.
So, all of a sudden, we were putting all of our stuff,
you know, up for sale, and putting it in storage units,
and it was the first time that I really felt
like I didn't have a base, or a root.
And, so I started thinking about this idea of displacement.
And, right around that time
is when Hurricane Katrina happened.
And, I don't know if you remember,
all of the newspaper articles,
and seeing images of the devastation
and people who, you know,
couldn't even take their pets with them,
and lost family members.
I was very affected by that.
And it started me thinking about other people's life stories
and how they were also affected by displacement
in a different way.
So the piece that's behind me,
it's called Lost and Found,
and this was originally an installation I made
for the Free Library of Philadelphia.
And it was this beautiful space, in the cafe,
with 22-foot ceilings,
and the woman, the curator there said,
oh, would you be interested in a group show.
And I was like, I want the whole thing.
Because it was this 60 foot wall with a 22 foot ceilings,
so it was amazing.
So, for the project, I took two years,
and I asked people to think about an object
that they had lost, that they wished they still had.
And, usually people can be pretty quick about it.
They'll think about something, like a,
I don't know, a roaster, or a moving hand truck,
or books or jackets.
And what I really love about that question,
is it's not often that it's some super valuable object,
you know, a Porche, or a diamond, or maybe it could be,
but usually it's something very mundane, very humble.
But it just had significance to you.
It was important to you.
So, I had 40 different people,
some of them were strangers,
I would leave little boxes in the cafe space,
and people would submit their stories.
Some of them, were people I knew.
This was my Mom's jacket.
And I recreated them by first drawing them, life size,
then I would transfer the drawings to screens
and I screen print them onto fabric.
And then, sometimes I would paint them.
Like this jacket, I actually painted afterwards.
After it's screen printed onto fabric,
I would then sew it like a big pillow,
and then stuff it from behind
using what's called the trapunta method,
it's a quilting method where you sew from the front,
and if you looked at the back of these,
I don't wanna rip it down,
but if you looked at the back of them,
you would see that I ripped the back,
and stuffed it from behind.
And that gives it this relief quality.
So I did that for 90 different objects.
And it was on view for a year and a half,
and then sadly it had to come down,
because they were renovating the space.
But I was able to create smaller panels
that actually fit in galleries.
Because you can't go 18 1/2 feet high in those galleries.
So, that's how these five panels came to be.
So each of these pieces is representative
of a person and a story.
For example, sorry Adam (laughs)
this is Julia's couch,
and Julia Zeigar described, whenever she was sick
her Mom would let her just sit on the couch,
and she would feed her soup, and tea,
and you just stay there,
and she would take care of her.
And she's, Julia's now in her mid-80s,
and she just says she longs for somebody
to take care of her, in that way,
you know, the way that her mother did.
And she also described the television set
that was near that,
and she remembers seeing the McCarthy hearings.
And her father was a graphic designer,
and they were Jewish, and she said that a lot of his friends
were implicated in the McCarthy hearings,
and were actually brought into jail.
Some of them lost their jobs.
And she remembers seeing her father
in front of the television sobbing,
because it was his friends that were actually on television.
So, those are some of her stories.
This is a guitar
that was one of my interns, actually,
she helped me out.
Her name is Sam Anderson.
And she played on this, I forget the exact type of guitar,
I'm sure somebody here knows but, she loved it
and her Mom sold it for $10 at a garage sale.
I sometimes joke that a lot of these stories,
it's always your Mom's fault, you know.
(laughing)
And, this is my friend Tim Gibbons' bicycle,
and he actually went to college with me.
He went to Oberlin College, in Ohio.
And his father also went there,
and this was his father's bike.
And so he was really excited about having it.
There was this custom, 'cause it was Ohio,
I'm in Philly now so I can't imagine this but,
you wouldn't lock your bike,
you would just leave it.
And, someone stole his bike.
And he really was upset because it was his father's as well.
So, I recreated that for him.
And, so on, and so forth.
This is, a nice one, this Johanna, I didn't know her,
but she told an interesting story about how
when she was 5, her whole family was moving,
and her parents had them pack boxes of their special things,
you know like how when you're a kid you have special things?
They're usually rocks and I dunno,
I had a lot of rocks and dolls.
And, so, her and her brother packed their special things
and they were on the top of her father's car
and they fell in the middle of the highway.
And she remembers being told, from her Dad,
that, you know, her box was gone.
It was the first time she felt,
a little bit of lack of control,
and it's loss, basically.
So each of the objects has some sort of story,
or history or memory attached to them.
I completed this, like I said, in two years,
so it was from 2012 to 2014.
And then I made them into the panels that just last year.
And then since then I've been doing some other projects.
I'm not sure how much time I have left,
but, so I'll just describe some of the other ones,
since people have asked about those as well.
There is a series that I did at the Walton Art Center,
which is in Fayetteville, Arkansas,
where I interviewed eight different people
that were volunteers at the center, and I asked them
just to talk and have a conversation with me.
And then I created pieces based on of there stories.
This I Rebecca's.
Rebecca had two windows.
And, Rebecca described growing up in Texas.
Her father was a doctor and he was an avid gardener.
And he would garden, he was actually president
of the Iris Club.
Isn't that great?
And so, she remembers in Texas, this amazing garden
outside of her house.
And during World War II, her father was actually
stationed in Florida to do medical exams for people
that were entering the Army.
And so their family moved down to Florida
and lived on a base.
And she described these blackout curtains
that they would have because of air raids.
So, I don't there actually,
I think they were tests, like they were
in case there was an air raid, you would put those down.
And it's supposed to symbolize that there were these
two different windows that she had in her childhood.
In the corner, we have Mike.
And Mike would hide to read,
I'm actually come back out here,
so that some of you can see me.
We have Mike would hide to read,
and I love putting him in the corner like that,
because he grew up in a rural part of Arkansas
and his mother died when he was three,
and his father remarried,
and he had a number of step-siblings
but he was the oldest
and he was one of the few men of the house.
And his Dad would work on railroads.
And so he'd be gone for weeks at a time.
And he was basically in charge of their farm.
And so he describes just having to work a lot.
And that his refuge was being able to read.
And so he would hide in like haystacks,
and hide in the pig sty area,
and just go wherever he could to be able to read
and to escape.
And he actually went on to, because of his local,
it was almost like a library on wheels,
he went on to do his thesis on Charles Dickens,
and he was a professor of English.
So, it's a really fabulous story,
but he had definitely had a trying childhood.
Over here we have Roger's Grandmothers Were Cheaters.
And Roger grew up, actually in Oregon,
and he describes really disliking his grandmothers,
which is why I made them out of this scratchy wool.
I wanted to kind of describe their personalities.
They would play pinochle, and they would cheat constantly.
(laughing)
So I liked this image of these like, kinda cheating,
mean, grandparents.
So that's them.
You can't see these as well, but you probably saw them
when you came in.
There's a series of three of the same person.
This is a more personal piece for me.
It's based off of the story of my very dear friend, Emily.
And, in April 2015, she was walking down the street
after coming home from the gym,
and as she was walking down the street,
I was actually going to her house,
I was gonna borrow her car.
And, I received a phone call
and it was from Emily
and I picked up, and was like, hey,
and it was the Philadelphia Police Department,
because she was assaulted.
She was punched from behind.
And immediately in my head, they said, you know,
come get here, I ran towards her,
or towards where they said she was,
and I immediately envisioned her being in a pile,
so that's the pile one.
When I saw her, it was actually like she reached out,
and she wanted to just see me,
and she was so excited that I was there,
because there was all these police there,
but I was so thrilled that she was up.
She was upright, so that was a good thing for me.
But that's actually her real sweatshirt.
So the other two are fake ones, but
or their replicas, but that's the real sweatshirt.
And on that, you can see, it was torn,
and you can see that there's actually some of her blood
on it, as well.
And the one on the left, it's called His View,
and that's what he saw, when he decided to do
what he did to her.
So, as you can see, it's like a little bit easier
for me to sometimes talk about other people's stories,
but I am moving in to talking about,
some of my own stories, as well.
Anyway, so, and I do think that part of this process,
of creating artwork helps to make it so that
you can think about these things
and you can express them,
which is really important,
not only to me, but I think to other people,
who may have gone through something like that, as well.
As embarrassing as it is.
So, I am embarrassed by it, 'cause it's vulnerable,
but I also thinks it's important
and that it adds so much more to the pieces.
Because if you just see them, you wouldn't know
the power of the story.
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