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An artist residency is a place where art construction intersects with the functional necessities of life. Residuals <\/em>is an installation of objects and materials that operates at the intersection of (imagined) domesticity and (creative) productivity.It was installed at ArtPark<\/a> in Lewiston, NY as part of PLAY\/GROUND 2020<\/a>. The installation is the result of a father \/ daughter collaboration (Allen Topolski \/ Aster Topolski<\/a>) \u2013 a convergence with the notable artists who participated in the now defunct ArtPark Residency of the 1970s. QR codes in the doorways to each of the slabs, connect to a site<\/a>\u00a0providing additional information of each artist.<\/p>\n Each of the eleven concrete slabs – originally the floors of the cottages where artists lived \u2013 feature a constructed or found object and a fabricated architectural remnant. The wallpaper designs on the wall segments and the accompanying objects are creative conflations of the present and the past and speak to a legacy that is mirrored in the relationship of the artists.<\/p>\n