My practice currently centres on themes of childhood and memory. I intend to provoke the experience of nostalgia; the viewer will recall their own memories of childhood through engagement with my work. I project images that are intended to suggest the fragmented memories that we equally experience from the family photograph album.
The boxes have taken on their own narrative, not only do they have loaded connotations of moving and packing but also they tap into that childhood tendency to play with boxes, this curiosity of playing in boxes and creating dens. At the same time they also start to become a regimental procession of cardboard boxes. They also reference a nomadic culture totally separate from that of ‘Civvy Street’. The cardboard is harsh against white plaster, and takes on a very structural appearance, like giant building blocks. The boxes and objects reference a laying down of roots, boxing away and building a home with memories.
The once loved childhood toys become mere dead objects, they lack the purpose they once had, they can no longer be played with.