Trying to Stay Clean (2025)

Filmed, scored, and edited by Kaia King-Hall.

Trying to Stay Clean is a translation of my experience living and being in a relationship with an active substance abuser. Using a similar approach to Mike Kelley, I look through the lens of repressed memory syndrome, constructing the work through video, audio, and sculptural elements. By taking the most memorable components and indisputable truths of my experience, I fabricate an abstracted, stripped-down interpretation of this time in order to communicate its foreboding essence.

Installation