Abstract
Through creating installations and sculpture that draw upon autobiographical sources, I am exploring the ambiguity of memory, shared trauma, and how individuals come to terms with loss and grief. Within my work the family becomes monumentalized through the erection of grand domestic spaces incorporating iconographic household items such as ceramic tableware and portraiture. I utilize clay as a medium that can be manipulated, taking identifiable objects and rendering them soft to suggest the wilting effect of time, or brittle to infer breakage and fragmentation. The morphing of objects becomes a process to examine the impact of time, and the disfiguration of memory on domestic routine and experience.