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"Remnant" Series
Kelliher-Combs’s “Remnant” Series (2016) is a collection of contemporary works created to provoke emotion and spark a search for deeper meaning and first featured in SITE Santa Fe’s “Much Wider Than a Line.” The series involved a small room with “twenty-nine rectangular constructions” for viewers to absorb. These rectangular constructions had an ancient glass window that displayed a suspended “polymer-coated human hair or animal body” part. Kelliher-Combs achieves these “textural effects” by using her hands, “electric fans, and other tools,” as well as the unexpected reactions to the atmosphere. Some of these “encased objects” are feathers, walrus stomach, and animal bones.

Unraveled Secrets
Created in 2006 and exhibited in Modo Gallery, Hudson, NY, Unraveled Secrets is Kelliher-Combs’s expression of the many layers that make up identity. Inspired by Kelliher-Combs’s complex racial identity, Unraveled Secrets presents identity as layers of “construct built on honesty and insight, resistance to and respect for tradition” as well as the spiritual change that takes place over time. Unraveled Secrets is a “mixed-media installation” of a single thread that is woven through “thousands of steel quilting needles tacked to the wall.”