Life's Not The Same After Bambi
2014
'Life’s Not The Same After Bambi,' is a very personal project following the death of my father. The works within this project are linked because they are all about me holding on to memories of my father and the fear of one day losing those memories. Elements within these works reflect how fragile and precious memories are and in turn how precious and fragile human life is.
I titled this project Life’s Not The Same After Bambi after remembering the first time I watched Disney’s Bambi. As a child it made me see the world differently like there was a loss of innocence, the same loss that comes with grief.
I titled this project Life’s Not The Same After Bambi after remembering the first time I watched Disney’s Bambi. As a child it made me see the world differently like there was a loss of innocence, the same loss that comes with grief.
MEMORIES IN JARS
2014
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From a young age I used to pick up shells and feathers and stones (as all children do) and give them to my dad and he would put them in his coat pockets. And every walk we went on, whether it be down the woods or a trip to the seaside, I would collect these souvenirs and he would keep them in his pocket and they would still be there in his coat pocket on the next walk we went on.
This sculpture is tribute to those eighteen years of walks and beachcombing, all of those memories are represented within eighteen jars containing souvenirs. However, two jars remain empty as they represent the years of his absence at that time. |
MEMORIES IN JARS, 2014.
(Sculpture no longer exists)
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DIARY SCANS
2014
Digital collages created using scans of the pages from my father's diaries. When experiencing loss, I found myself finding the everyday things more precious, like my father's handwriting.
