Vaya Con Dios, My Darling— 2026
Mirror, marble, copper, pearls, incense
Three mirrors with seven hanging incense forms
Vaya Con Dios, My Darling was created in the room where Kühn’s grandparents died, as an act of remembrance and a meditation on passage, time, and the rituals we create around loss.
Three mirrors represent past, present, and future. Marble lilies emerge from their surfaces, drawing from the flower’s longstanding association with mourning, funerary rites, and the passage between life and death. Suspended from delicate chains strung with pearls, seven incense forms burn plants gathered from the property—including rosemary, bay laurel, and redwood—transforming the surrounding landscape into smoke.
The work is activated through burning. As the incense is lit, material gathered from the land passes into scent and air, creating a ceremony of remembrance within the room itself.
The title comes from the night Kühn’s grandfather, Bob, died. Driving his Cadillac back to his house, Kühn turned on the car to find Vaya Con Dios, My Darling already playing from his CD. The phrase—“go with God, my darling”—became the name of the work.