Steel, Porcelain, Cotton, Collected beach sands

42cm x 38cm x 31cm

This work investigates memory as an unstable, continually reconfigured field rather than a fixed repository of the past. It brings together elements marked by prior use, place, and attachment, drawing them into close proximity so that their former roles and associations are neither erased nor simply preserved, but set into new, uncertain combinations. What emerges is less a singular object than a dense palimpsest of lived histories, in which traces of handling, wear, and environment remain active, if partially obscured.

Immersion in porcelain slip initiates an entanglement rather than a joining, drawing heterogeneous materials into a shared field of becoming in which their prior identities are progressively reconfigured. The kiln operates relationally, compelling substances to contract, flow and fracture so that relations of support, tension and exposure are rearticulated.

What presents itself as a coherent body is thus better understood as a provisional stabilisation within an ongoing material negotiation, a momentary arrest.

The work sustains a state of partial becoming, a site of negotiation where distinctions between substance and gap, integrity and breakdown, are continuously unsettled, staging matter and memory as co-constituted through adhesion, loss, and exposure.

In holding open the interval between what has been and what might yet take form, memory is examined as precarious, always in the process of being reassembled, refigured, and risked.