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Furnishing Philadelphia- new screenprints on abandoned houses in Philadelphia and in a hallway wall of Anderson Hall at UArts. Click here for more.

 

Japanese woodblock prints wheat pasted on abandoned buildings. Click here for more.

North Philly, January 2008

 
 


In the true American spirit of Christmas
Refugee Christmas Village
In stores now

Hand crafted porcelain refugee villages in an offset sleeve
were left in your favorite holiday stores.

Nesting in Philadelphia
  
sssssPart Two of The Abandoned Houses Project consisted of Kay Healy settling in her new town of Philadelphia. Nesting materials were collected and set up around the city, while the artist and semi-random volunteers were photographed interacting with the installation in the surrounding environment. The piece is meant not only as a personal stage of the artist's life, but also as a statement on the transient nature of our attempts to settle, organize, and control our surroundings.
 
ssssThe original Abandoned Houses project was designed by Kay Healy in Spring 2006, before moving to Philadelphia to attain an MFA in book arts and printmaking. Forty ceramic houses were dispersed across New York City in sites of personal significance. These sites included parks, bars, pet stores, diners, subway stations, ferries, offices, jobs, and the like. Each house was carefully crafted and uniquely designed for the memory and context of the given site.
 
  The Cuneiform is a new direction in the concept of the transience of creation, destruction, and rebirth. Kay Healy is carving personal text into unfired clay in the tradition of the earliest known book structures called cuneiforms. The structure is then allowed to self-destruct in the elements and will be continuously re-shaped and rewritten as a metaphor of the continuity of change.
   
 

 

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Hotel Project 2008
   
     

 

 

Your feedback and comments are greatly appreciated. kayhealy@theabandonedhouses.com

 

special thanks to PJ