Memories can be triggered by the senses and things around us, surfaces are the visual factor of these triggers and can connect us to a space of nostalgic significance. In my work I tend to gravitate towards the topic of nostalgia and use aesthetic elements that have a link to references in the past, this is since I am a highly sentimental person and I romanticize the past. We link and associate what we see and perceive with what we already know and remember, these are stored in our memory. No one memory is the same and we all have different narrative's that we have created within ourselves. For sometime now within my practice I have had a hard time pinpointing why nostalgia and memory is something that reoccurs in my practice. This can give me an opportunity to explore that and through a methodology finding out how this can manifest itself...

I started with the notion of visualizing memory, through my clay sculptures.
My first sculpture was an exercise to get stuck into the process. Here I used photos of textures and shapes that I found in my chosen location to create in a nutshell what caught my attention that day and then later this created a memory of what I noticed in the area.