There is a house on fire (2022)
There is a house on fire. Don't worry, it is not your house.
This looping video-poem installation combines poetry, film, sound, and sculpture to create a disquieting scene of destruction. Devoid of traditional images, save for those that the words and audio evoke in the viewer’s own mind, the video presents a seemingly unbiased, factual account of a house fire. But as the story unfolds, a moral conflict emerges.
The text of the video originates from the poem There Is A House On Fire, which is part of Nicolette's full-length poetry collection Tell Me I'm Not On Fire (2024).