Eve Brown will attend Volatile House for a two week residency to continue to work on their project “Lost and Held”. Loss is intrinsic to life and Brown seeks to create spaces for loss to be seen, heard and held in community. In this project Brown will document peoples’ losses large and small and from these create an installation. During their time at Volatile House, Brown will be immersed in the messy and experimental space of opening the phone lines for people to call in (or text, email) and tell them about what they’ve lost. They will document these losses through drawing, writing and recording, to later be turned into an immersive, visual and sonic installation. From lost buttons, to lost phones, lost love, lost bodies, and lost abilities. From lost clean air and waterways to lost ways of being. From losing one's mind to losing one's innocence, from the things we choose to lose to the things we do not -- this project is a place for all that is lost to be held. Brown believes that learning to witness and experience loss as a connective force gives us the choice to expand rather than contract. The project is a response to Brown’s own confusion about accepting loss as well as to the larger collective moment as we experience habitat destruction, climate change and loss of communal space to capitalism and commercialization. They aim to create a space where we can question, mourn, and celebrate loss freely. Some things we lose may never be found again, but some of our losses might become less lonely when held together.