Alone Time as an installation and exhibition was made immediately after the Covid-19 lockdowns were lifted in my area. I stumbled onto an estate sale of a hoarder/collector and was able to collect over twenty-five large bags of lace. This installation bridged my prior bodies of work like Object/Memory which really focused on the associative and extrinsic value of things in the material world and my more current body of work thinking about natural history. The repetitive graphic quality of the lace made me think of both the eponymous lace-wings of dragon and damselflies, but also the fractals that appear throughout nature. The armatures I made of steel were designed (when covered) to allude to termite mounds, covered furniture, and to evoke that uncanny feeling when an object viewed incompletely has the visual mass of another person.