The Traveller’s Case
Silk thread / foil/ wool / paper.
8x4x3cm
Take a look at the tiny cases floating weightlessly, frozen in time.
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The Traveller’s Case
These tiny cases float weightlessly, frozen in time.
Full of holes, they contain within them the memories and moments of their journeys; tickets, maps, letters, people half remembered, places half forgotten. Captured in time until they can venture out to journey again.
Dedicated to my mother who taught me how to travel.
‘To call up the past in the form of an image, we must be able to withdraw ourselves from the action of the moment, we must have the will to dream… But… the past is fugitive, ever on the point of escaping…’
Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory (1896)
Traveller’s Case II
Hand and machine embroidery / silk/ wool / foil / paper
Floating Cases
Pondycherry
To the Bay of Bengal and beyond.
Stockholm
Night train to Paris 1946.
Pica Pica
I spy with my beady eye.
Trousseau
‘You are going to show me your trousseau before you get married, aren’t you?’
La Playa
Escaped on a boat to an island or two.
Gozo
Where Calypso captured Ulysses.