Remnants of a Life

In the installation ‘Remnants of a Life’, emphasis is placed on the original object, which becomes part of a set. The re-objectified pieces are seen as an extension of the original, an element of the object’s personality. Of these re-objectified things, one is metal, heavy and a frozen moment in time, a memory and a relic, a shadow of its former self. The other object is from earth and dirt. This is temporary, disintegrating and collapsing, continually shedding itself, grain by grain. It speaks of the fragility of existence, how quickly life can be taken away. The reality of a life is gone, the decaying object creating a psychic profile of someone who once was by revealing layers of their ‘being’ through their things. A presence, when only absence remains…