Memento
Laundry Day
Felt, Thread, Fabric
2 in x 1.5 in x 2.5 in
Full Angle #2
In Hand
The sculpture explores a personal memory that I experienced as a small child. I used to sit in my mom's woven laundry basket while she did laundry, and she would put the warm, clean clothes around me once they were done drying. I chose to wove felt into a small pouch to communicate the softness of the memory, even though I was contained. I decided to weave the felt because the woven nature of the basket stood out in my memory as an important detail. I chose a golden color for the thread because my mom wears gold jewelry, as do the rest of the women in her family, so gold is an important color to me. I made the choice to make the fabric attached to the pouch but still able to be taken out, as the little red ball of fabric is supposed to represent me within the basket. I chose red as the color for the fabric because the memory is warm, my mom has red hair, and recently I have been paying homage to her by dying some of my hair red.
In Process
Inspiration #1
Jenny Gilbert
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-Cold-Porcelain-Clay-air-dry-modelling/
Inspiration #2
Marco Tirelli
https://socks-studio.com/2014/12/08/i-grew-up-here-but-i-never-felt-entirely-part-of-it-marco-tirellis-tiny-sculptures/
Inspiration #3
Anthony Roussel
https://anthonyrousseljewellery.tumblr.com/post/100984160222
On Longing
I found this cliff while driving around when I went home a few months ago, and the view made me feel so small compared to the rest of the world.
The souvenir speaks to a context of origin through language of longing, for it is not an object arising out of need or use value.
This little keychain of a fox from a TV show is not a necessity nor does it hold significant functional value - it is simply a cute ornament that I have on my keys to match my partner's keychain.
The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three-dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body.
On a semi-scary late-night walk, my partner and I found this little marble that we kept as a very tiny reminder of the creepy evening we had.
To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy.
On a trip over spring break, my partner made sure to find a tiny souvenir for me and found this geode slice from Brazil.
The place of origin must remain unavailable in order for desire to be generated.
This mirror and many other aesthetically pleasing finds in the Lightner Museum always leave me wanting to visit where the pieces came from - namely France and Spain.
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