Fragilities (relics)

24cm x 20cm x 8cm

 

Description

Sewing tin, two small disintegrating souvenir tea cosies

 

Themes, comments & storylines

Souvenirs & relics, disappearing memories – as the story is lost, so are the memories.

'"Memory [...] is based on chance and imagination as much as evidence and explanation; the forgetting brought on by decay allows for a different form of recollection."

DeSilvey, Caitlin, 2006. Observed decay: telling stories with mutable things. Journal of Material Culture 11(3), p.328

 

sister piece to Fragilities (fragments)