The Tomb of the Wayward Queen

The Tomb of the Wayward Queen is an ongoing body of ceramic and archival work developed through the materials of an unfinished excavation. The objects—vessels, implements, fragments—do not belong to a single period or belief system, and resist stable historical placement. Their forms borrow from multiple traditions without resolving into one.

The project works from a set of contradictory records describing a burial site that could not be completed. Accounts disagree on the structure of the chambers, the classification of the objects, and the status of the central figure. Later interventions focus less on interpretation than on stabilization and containment.

Rather than reconstructing a coherent narrative, the work releases these materials without resolution. What emerges is not a tomb in any conventional sense, but a collection of objects and documents organized around a refusal: to lie down, to conclude, to behave as evidence should.

ONGOING—participation opportunities planned for 2026.