an anthology of memory
lingering
in the forgetting
2024
Natural and naturally dyed wool and silk with Gotland fleece and wild tussah silk and red eri silk thread
210 x 70 x 180 cm installed
The artwork, an anthology of memory / lingering / in the forgetting draws on natural fibres and colour to communicate lived experiences of a child within a landscape marred by trauma. Focussing on experiences connected to my father, the work situates memory within an abstracted landscape, an environment where we were sent out away from the house so as not to disturb our mother. The landscape sits above – the aerial perspective of an omniscient narrator drawing on the threads of memories. Use of repeated threads, colours and textures recall the landscape and the fractured memories of the landscape with my father with whom we retreated outside. Threads extend from the landscape, working within the ebbs and flows of memory subjected to a child’s recollection and the ravages of time. Varying weights of natural and earth pigmented beeswax emphasise the contrasting temporality of certain memories, some inseparable from the landscape in which they were formed.
