2016-2019
The Weight of Paradise (I Wish You Were Here)
2016-2019, Installed at DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities Gallery
64 x 30 x 15 inches, hand-carved marble, marble chips, marble dust, polypropylene sandbags, and a 1-minute, 17-second video-mapped projection.
Captivated by the paradisal projections of sunset, a figure lays heavy and buried under the weight of their inaction. Yet glitches begin to reveal themselves, proving that the saccharin-sweet story being consumed isn't all that it seems.
The head of the sculpture was carved by Kassewitz while she lived in Italy (2015-2016) during a marble carving residency in Carrara with master sculptor Boutros Romhein.