The Relic continues The Mending's exploration of the subtle forms of memory and transmission embedded within domestic space. The figure holds a small skull in her hand, at once offered to the viewer and held in quiet contemplation. This suspended gesture resists any fixed interpretation, opening a space where the object becomes a meeting point between intimate experience and a broader temporality.
Reduced to a few essential elements, the setting unfolds as an interior landscape. The crocheted doily, a recurring motif throughout the series, extends beyond domestic reference to become a material repository of memory, shaped by repeated gestures, everyday use, and the presences that pass from one generation to the next. Rather than functioning as a traditional memento mori, the small skull becomes a relic that invites reflection on what endures, what changes, and what continues to inhabit the present.
As part of The Mending, the work considers familiar objects as vessels of memory in constant transformation. Figures, textiles, and everyday gestures form a silent language in which mending is understood not as the erasure of rupture, but as the recognition of the continuities that emerge through it.
