Hotel Cassiopoeia

The American collage artist Joseph Cornell mades wooden boxes filled with pocket watches, coiled springs, maps of the stars, a forest of thimbles, parrots, seashells, broken glass, children’s alphabet blocks, brightly colored balls, soap bubbles, whales’ teeth, a colored lithograph of the moon in the night sky, and star fish. How would it be if those boxes could speak? Charles Mee’s Hotel Cassiopoeia is about art, America, compassion and longing and loneliness and heartbreak.