Door
2025–2026
Mixed-media assemblage

This door originally belonged to the Rigley family. It came from their original home in downtown Nashville, Indiana, and was later moved to The Rigley Field, where it survived as one of two doors carried between the houses. Its history was discovered only after the door had already entered the work.

Removed from its architectural function, the door now holds objects, words, inherited things, and found domestic material.

Hanging from it is a woven basket that belonged to Mother. Inside is a clown costume handmade for the artist as a child by Grandmother: Grandmother as maker, Mother as carrier, artist as steward.

A broom, a “Clean My Room” sign, handwritten interventions, and other domestic objects remain around it.

Across the front of the door is a puzzle made from Rimowa alphabet stickers, handwritten marks, spacing, and missing letters. The stickers were originally designed to identify luggage. Here, they have to be read, completed, and connected.

The puzzle resolves to:

“This door is a knock knock knick knack.”

The answer sits on the same side of the door in the form of a magnetically mounted EZRA Data Frame. The puzzle asks the viewer to recognize the structure; the Data Frame identifies the larger system it belongs to.

Above the door hangs a family heirloom, gifted to the artist as a housewarming present by a close local friend.

The joke reclassifies the door. Something that once belonged to architecture becomes a knickknack: an object kept because it carries meaning rather than because it remains useful.

To understand the work completely, you have to look closely, recognize what is being presented, and connect the pieces.

The door still opens.