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The Peculiar Resonance of Memories

Pre-loved suitcases, material, objects, canvas, sound, light

The Peculiar Resonance of Memories juxtaposes the suitcase with the traditional icons of the museum to create a work about memory’s provenance and circumstance.

The suitcase evokes associations of travel, displacement, emigration, exile and transience yet, at the same time reminds us of belonging and stability. The idiosyncratic collections of material indicate a relationship between the way organisms organise themselves and the way the brain is able to collect, store and process memories.

The Peculiar Resonance of Memories dramatises the way memory functions through association, leaps, or dislocations and how the most profound of these occurrences can give new insight into our relationship with the world.

Blue Gold

Major investors in water stocks (commonly called Blue Gold by traders) profit from a global water market currently valued at $460 billion dollars. The limited supply of fresh water has made it one of the most valuable commodities in the world today, more valuable than oil.

This work recognizes the rapid shift in the status of water as a scarce resource and a global commodity, raising issues of access to and equitable distribution of this essential resource.