Artist: Sara Crochet Medium: Mixed Media Installation (Confessional Booth, Audio) Year: 2024Artist Statement: Confessional
Confessional delves into the reverberations of trauma and the deprogramming of ingrained patterns. Step inside this booth to share your truths through a rewired phone, transformed by Trent Turnley. Each confession layers onto a looping track, creating a collective echo of vulnerability.
Insulated with recycled mail, notes, and nostalgic scraps I wished to release, the booth embodies a liberating journey. The ambient backing track, crafted by Trent, enriches the auditory landscape, allowing confessions to grow within a shared space. Constructed from recycled materials, Confessional weaves raw intimacy with technical innovation, transforming personal moments into a communal narrative of healing.
My project for @loudhouseprojects, Confessional, played on the ideas of talk therapy, reverberations of trauma, and the process of deprogramming those patterns. The confessional booth invited people to step inside, pick up a rewired phone—modified by Trent—and share their truths. Each confession was warped and layered into a looping audio track, creating this collective echo of shared vulnerability. The booth was meant to remind us that we all carry secrets while encouraging visitors to release what burdened them and add it to the collection.
This project was about confessing, releasing, deprogramming, your secrets and letting go. The walls were insulated with recycled mail, notes, leftover cardboard, and other scraps of nostalgia that I needed to release. The day after the show, I destroyed it. Ironically, it took less time to dismantle the installation than to build it, which really hit me but felt so right—like a reflection of how fleeting those shared moments were and how now they’d been set free. My hope is that Confessional turned those private experiences into a communal one, shedding light on the messy but essential process of healing.
