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here we are but never were engages with familial memory as referenced through material translation. Hand-crocheted cotton is saturated with porcelain slip and fired in a kiln, a process
that burns away the fiber and leaves behind only its memory in clay- an idea of what once was. The quotidian form of the tablecloth becomes an artifact of futile labor; it is made as fragile as
the relationships it ... read morealludes to, yet remains a precious object that must be approached with care.
here we are but never were attempts to memorialize. It is driven both by nostalgia and hope(less)(ful) speculation, a yearning for a unity that cannot exist and perhaps never did.read less
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