“It’s cloudy inside” is a slide installation that captures the elusive moment when reality slips beyond our grasp. This work emerged from a residency at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY, in 2016, where I spent three months at the invitation of the organization Beautiful Distress. Through intimate conversations with patients and caregivers, I explored the moment at which reality begins to unravel. They shared personal reflections on what reality means to them and how it feels losing grip on it, offering a rich tapestry of perspectives.

Each day, I distilled striking quotes from these conversations, written onto cardboard protest signs. The slide installation “It’s cloudy inside” presents these 100 protest signs in a loop, offering a cross-section of my research. The handwritten quotes reveal a spectrum of emotions and thoughts, from fear, confusion, and despair to hope and grandiosity, reflecting the experience when reality blurs and nothing is as it once seemed.