Memento 4

Memento #4 was created in response to the layered history of our domestic lives: individual items which hint at the stories of their original owners, and those stories which are common to us all. The work explores a journey through memory, using the form of a layered glass casket of objects, feminine and domestic in nature: jewellery, silverware, timepieces, buttons, keys and, hidden within, photographs of loved ones. One item within the piece sits as an ‘anchor’: the gold wire-work ‘Mother’ brooch, which serves to bind together the narrative of the many parts.