This series of ceramic sculptures visually interprets the English slang expression to hang or hang out—referring to spending time together in a place—by depicting the act of literally hanging from a structure or building. The sculptures can be viewed both as individual objects and as part of an installation, offering insight into how abandoned urban and suburban spaces are inhabited. Specifically, they draw from personal past experiences in which these sites functioned as playgrounds for young adults—spaces where experimenting with substances, sex, art-making, and rave organizing became essential to the act of hanging out with friends.

From a variety of more or less abstract ceramic archi- tectures, colorful slime-like beings dangle, some displaying recognizable anthropomorphic traits and postures. As an installation, the work presents the viewer with a pastel-colored, doll-sized urban land- scape. At first glance, the fluid, dynamic forms appear to be in motion, yet they are frozen in time—as if someone had pressed pause on the playback of a hazy, dreamlike memory. The installation is accompanied by the sound of muffled electronic music, its low frequencies emanating softly from a small speaker hidden within the structures.