ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Urban Archaeology
The homes in my neighborhood date back one hundred years or more. As with any home, things need replacing on a regular basis. The plaster ceiling in our spare bedroom started to come loose and needed to be replaced. Upon removing the ceiling I found amongst the debris a rat skeleton, an abandoned beehive, and lots of nails. I drew upon these found objects and other things found on my property for a still life study called Urban Archaeology.
Urban Archaeology is about little treasures forgotten and found over the years in ones own home. Sometimes someone finds a Picasso hidden away in the attic and sometimes it’s rat bones. This set of bones I found intriguing not only because the leg and tail were fully intact, but moreover because I shared my home with it and also a large hive of bees at some point and didn’t know.
Since we moved in 15 years ago, we’ve saved just about every little odd object along the way. Marbles, filigree metal disk, a little Eskimo statue, along with a bullet casing; these were all dug up in the garden of our home. The butterfly and other insects were found in my garage studio. Each one of these oddities has a back-story that someone may remember, chances are my husband and I will never know. I think it is within our own instinctive nature to want to know about the past histories of places we are drawn to or have live at. There are over a hundred million search results for finding your house history on Google. We have general knowledge of the previous occupants of our home over the years and some of the house changes along the way. Yet, every bit of information, trinket is a treasure found.

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