Some Day We’ll Win

(2019)

Scratch tickets (weaved)

A piece created with specific experience in mind. Growing up, moving from house to house, especially in the low time, my father would spend a good chunk of money on scratch tickets or other gambling games. Every time he would come home with a small stack of scratch tickets and lose on them all he would exclaim “Someday We’ll Win” telling me about the perfect life we could live if only he would strike big on a scratch ticket. From this I’ve always had the hope of striking luck in a way to which I would achieve ultimate happiness and the perfect life. I wanted to create a physical manifestation of this hope, so sourcing old losing and winning scratch tickets from, mainly my father, and a series of convenience stores I created a small weaved blanket of tickets that glitters with luster giving the impression of a prized object. The piece also hangs incomplete as a symbol of an incomplete dream.  

This piece was featured in the solo exhibition The Getaway City (2019), hosted by the Godine Family Gallery