Emery Vanderburgh

Artist

I’d Tell You, But You’d Never

Purple background with handwritten words clipped out of a notebook: "We ARE NOT IN." A small, zoomed out picture of a two-level miniature home is in the centre.
photo of a miniature house placed on a periwinkle background. Clay-sculpted items are strewn around the house: upstairs, a shirt and skirt with large buttons. Downstairs: a green water bottle, a travel mug, an apple, and a plant. A rotary telephone, milk carton, egg and tea kettle sit on a table in the centre. Bananas are being lowered from the top level, hanging by a fishing wire.

A video that weaves together common themes found in my journals from between 2019 and 2020. I divided the work into three sections that reflect the main preoccupations found in my writing. Part 1: represents a reflection on time and aging, Part 2: the mundanity of everyday life and mortality, and Part 3: rapid thought, the creative process, and the stress of building responsibilities. The video is an intimate portrait of the unfiltered and often clumsy documentation of everyday life.