Trace is a memorial to the “essential workers” who died in the Covid-19 pandemic

The one hundred named here were lost in the early months of 2020.

Painted in heat-sensitive paint, their names, and a single phrase of memory shared by their loved ones, were invisible at room temperature.

Like so many, all one hundred would have died without being touched. 

It seemed particularly moving, then, that it was the warmth of human touch that would make them visible. 

Once the names cooled, they faded to invisibility once more.

Visitors were invited to lay hands, and experience these lives os grievable. 

LOCATION: MIRIAM & IRA D WALLACH ART GALLERY (NYC)