“Where Do You Summer?” is a response to the wealth disparity and homelessness crisis in Washington DC. As the son of a former Catholic priest, born in Logan Circle and later raised in the Palisades, Guinan investigates housing displacement, religious and cognitive dissonance, and the class divide in the nation’s capital.

Guinan combines materials found in tent encampments with textiles signifying wealth: sleeping bags, bungee cords, ratchet straps, tarp, waxed cotton, gaberdine and pima oxford cotton. These items trigger memories relative to one’s experiences with them—leisure, joy, survival, uncertainty and/or trauma. By symbolically reformatting these objects, the artist shifts one’s attention to a reflective space recognizing our varying degrees of complicity.