goodbye payton

2023.









emily curates the endings, beginnings, and middle of a crumbling relationship using audio recordings and hand-written letters. the website forces the viewer to unravel the many idiosyncratic forms a relationship can take, including all of its dead-ends and hopeful beginnings.

at large, the work explores nostalgia and loss as they piece together what is left of a relationship to form a goodbye. the work not only restricts the viewer from reading the entirety of the text at once or at a glance but also prevents any attempt in doing so. instead, it invites the viewer to explore the text line by line, ultimately, this obstruction mirrors the perspective of an outsider looking into the relationship.

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digital america. 2023
reed college creative review. 2023



good luck payton