The present exists in a continuum which vastly exceeds human experience. The memories evoked in us by images we encounter draw on our relationships and evolving interpretations of our personal experiences. In this work I explored how personal and collective memories can be externalized, and shared.
The house where I grew up had a cycad, an indigenous ornamental plant which resembles a palm or fern, but is neither. I used my happy memories of that now-defunct cycad, and interwove texts with photographs of cycads in other people's homes, transposing my own childhood memories. I exhibited a model of my childhood home, made from memory, revisiting that house's exterior, the house as a vessel, and the family that fit in it.