KIRSTEN MCCORMICK Safe, 2022

Through self-portrait, my artwork explores the intimacy of nostalgia and comments on the universal experience of yearning to return to childhood. The process of developing this artwork required me to interrogate my own sentimentality and to eventually realise that the objects that held the most meaning were the ones that had accumulated a collective significance from being passed on from my aunts to my mother and finally to me. I was intrigued to communicate the way in which objects shift over time to be vessels for memory, becoming more than just their physical form; they can deliver a feeling of safety.