I Remember You

‘I Remember You’, is an installation, conceptually developed from personal responses to death, grief, and the posed question from my youngest son, ‘What if l can’t remember Dad?’ 

The memory vessels are constructed from various properties of cardboard and hessian and portray storage vessels for a collection of memories narrating the life of my children’s father. The memories are depicted in the form of black and white photographs photocopied on to transparent sheets. The didactic images are framed using shredded cardboard to generate a sense of protection and devotion towards my children’s father. Long pieces of shredded cardboard attach the frames to the vessels like neuron cells in the human brain. This concept suggests neuron cells communicating with other cells through synapses. Some of the cardboard synapses are disconnected to suggest a break in the memory or a forgotten memory. The framed images are suspended above and between the vessels allowing the audience to follow the synapses and observe from beneath. This idea makes a reference to the divine/heaven.

‘I Remember You’, is made up of five vessels. The five vessels hang vertically and would require three wires/poles fixed across the top of window display or the installation could hang from the roof.  The contrast of the brown cardboard vessels and black and white photographs against white walls would enhance the installation and provide a background for the transparent sheets to be visible. Spotlighting from above and the natural light coming through the glass window would pick up on all the details.  The movable wall would box the memory vessels into a second vessel.