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Magnolia
Date
Fall 2023
Material
paper clay and stoneware, framed photograph by my grandmother (Val Brown), antique piano stool (family heirloom)
This installation engages with 4 generations of women, exploring the passing down of trauma and the loss of generational learning, as well as what it looks like to break cycles of trauma and plant new things together. My great grandmother's piano stool presences the absence of these women who have passed, while the framed photo, decorated by my grandmother and containing an image taken by her, informs the theme of the piece. In the image I plant a Magnolia tree, a gift from grandma, in the front garden with my mom. The ceramic "petals", the fragments that remain of past traumas and messy circumstances, are being swept up and brought together in an attempt to re-make the picture into something that keeps what is good, and leave behind what is not.