she was last seen running in central park, 2020

she was last seen leaving jeffrey epstein’s upper east side mansion, 2020

she was last seen near the hudson river, 2020

she was last seen leaving her home, 57th St, 2019

SHE WAS LAST SEEN, 2019-2020, performance/installation documented with photography, New York City

Markers of a violent past, SHE WAS LAST SEEN is an expression spoken or written in situations without guarantee of rescue. A phrase repeatedly heard in the news or read in missing person reports, Katelyn confronts forgotten-about, unsolved or unreported traumas.  A handwritten brutal checkpoint SHE WAS LAST SEEN embodies a harrowing uncertainty. A marker of someone's presence but expressed in a time of devastation and chilling absence. Any information following this phrase is generally “found dead” or continues to be “unsolved.”  

Katelyn began writing SHE WAS LAST SEEN on mattresses she found on the street. Attacking them aggressively, taking a momento, and discarding them - paralleling the dark reality experienced by victims of violent crime. Katelyn has placed mattresses in site-specific locations contingent upon historical areas of crime and abuse.

Have you seen her?

Passengers Journal: Volume 2, Issue, Visual Art