Reverberations
Reverberations explores time, nostalgia and loss through sight and sound. It asks whether the legacy of a lifetime can be held within a physical object. These soundscapes began during the final act of my mother’s life, combining audio from her stories as she told them to me, my father’s archival photographs with her collection of teacups. It is a metaphorical representation of a conversation shared over a cup of tea.
It is personal. A trauma resulted in deafness in my left ear twenty years ago. The Doctor, suggesting an alternative held a vibration pitchfork to the left side of my head that conducted sound through bone to my working right ear. I felt sound.
There are no words for the deepest things, for grief, but I have felt them and they reverberate within me.
The fundamental exploration is whether these cups of my Mother's and her Mother before, which rest on the shelf in my studio, have absorbed the sonic reverberations of every morning coffee, every afternoon tea, and every evening meal within them. The premise for this work liberally applies the first law of thermodynamics – that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. Rather, in this case, it is held within the ceramic. Time itself has collapsed in a teacup.
