Faculty of Arts & Science

Criticism and Curatorial Practice

Cait Toenjes

3659415 (Hospital Bracelets)

Readymade Collection

“This sculpture features a collection of plasticized hospital identification bracelets—each one a physical record of a visit, a treatment, an interruption. Housed in three heirloom antique mason jars, the readymade assemblage evokes the language of preservation and specimen display, transforming objects of clinical utility into relics of personal duration and survival. The work speaks quietly to the repetitive rituals of care, the passage of time, and the deeply human impulse to archive lived experience.”