The Burden of Inheritance

Objects, photographs and places evoke the memories and absence of others and of our own mortality. The kept object plays an important part in the cathartic process of remembering and the experience of grief. I have used archival material to portray and explore the notion of inheritance, keeping and loss and how this can perhaps be an overwhelming burden because of the amount of residual belongings that we accumulate over time from others past lives and existence. We all will or have been subjected to the possible guilt of throwing things away that belonged to a loved one that we feel we ought to keep them as a sense of duty, tradition and remembrance. There is a pull from both sides. My fragile and temporal structures echo the fragility of our existence whereby the object is removed from what it initially represents to something it signifies in the present.