Objects are silent witnesses to everyday happenings. If a piece of china could talk, it would have a thousand stories to tell. It is, however, generally overlooked countless times throughout its life. Survival celebrates the everyday, the mundane, and the frequently discarded within the domestic space.
The delf used in this piece belonged to the artist’s mother, an heirloom that holds sentimental value beyond its monetary worth. Through a considered and meditative process of repair, new life is breathed into the broken object, replacing part of its form, with tiny networks of miniature stitches. Borrowing from the Japanese art of Kintsugi, which repairs broken pottery with gold, the artist uses traditional Irish Lace techniques to mend the artefact, with the intention of celebrating the cracks and the flaws and extending the story of the heirloom.