ARTIST STATEMENT
This work relates to the loss of my grandmother, and my companions of many years - my horse and dog. As a homage to them I used objects and parts associated with and of them: grandma's jewellery, my horse's hair, and flowers I dried that were given to me on the death of my dog. Inspired by Victorian mourning jewellery I assembled elements of them together into boxes I lined with flesh-coloured fabrics as new jewellery mementos. I combined more flesh-coloured fabric and horsehair into a surface they could be displayed on in a symbolic circle evoking forever remembered and as a symbolic comfort blanket.
ARTWORK PROCESS
Horse hair, family jewellery, dried flowers, jewellery boxes, textiles assembled together.