Losing Winter is an ongoing participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about the season of winter, providing a window onto personal loss in the face of climate change. At the heart of the project are personal memories connected to winter from the past. Losing Winter was first realized with the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, Romania in 2018. In addition to the recorded memories, the project in Bucharest included Melt, a video featuring a series of unique ice sculptures created in response to selected memories positioned in key locations in and around the museum. A new realization of Losing Winter opens July 2021 with the Maryland Center for History and Culture in Baltimore, MD. Memories collected via video from residents of Maryland are set within the context of an exhibition of historical photographs and films showing scenes of winter in Maryland over the past 100 years. The Losing Winter mobile app (in progress) invites users to experience the memories of others through an augmented reality display. Holding up their mobile device, users see a shower of rain drops overlaid onto the scene in which they are standing. Embedded inside each drop is an individual memory. Tapping once on the screen will temporarily freeze selected drops to reveal faces encased within and tapping a second time on a drop enlarges it and plays the video of the associated memory.
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