DEGREE SHOW //

My degree show in 2013 was a large hanging installation made up of suspended wax prints and latex casts. The project was about memory and the breakdown of memory over time. I was inspired by my time working in a nursing home, seeing people with dementia or age related memory loss was something that had a great impact on me. I found my own way of processing and thinking about memory though my work. I used objects to represent a moment in time, I then cast the object in latex. This cast becomes the first impression of that moment. As the latex is then pulled from the object the cast comes distorted, this represents our memory of that moment in time, changed from its original state. I continued this distortion through printing the latex casts onto papers and wax sheets. Continuing this process further distorts and breaks down the original form of the cast representing the breakdown of our relayed memories over time. This work won me a First Class Degree which I am so proud of.