It is easy to forget that all of the waste we generate, the accumulated debris of modern life, will one day bury us beneath its formidable mass.

In a process that amounts to subjective excavation, Tomie Arai considers the various layers of our unresolved relationship to history and place within the context of our mortality. Drawing upon the metaphorical language of stories and an image from a distinct time, Arai’s work orients us in our relationship to evolving, accumulated collective memory, and, locates our ultimate submersion within the non-linear processes of time.