The Morphology of Forgetting

How draw a boundary between self and other, past time and today?

Patterns and shapes in nature often resemble one another, connecting life forms in unexpected ways. So tide lines remind me of the shapes found in wood grain, and the veins of a leaf those in a hand.

Age lines found inside tree trunks form as each outer layer covers the previous year’s growth and echoes its shape. This makes me think of how the past resurfaces as memories which coexist in us, to recede or become important at different times, as each successive state both screens past experience and is moulded by it.

In Kairos the gesture of the wrapped hands evokes the potential to connect, to seize the moment of unity behind what we perceive as separate.

The glass bell jar allows an incomplete contact. It brings a sense of preservation, and protects even as it isolates.

I dedicate this exhibition to my parents, whose recent deaths have helped me appreciate memory as a way to connect through time.