CityLit Gallery, 1-10 Keeley Street, London, WC2 4BA

All That We Hold Deeply Becomes a Part of Us is a quiet tribute to my mum’s love of organisation—a habit of storing everyday things in layers of boxes, tucked neatly into drawers and cupboards.

I re-created these boxes as small sculptures, suspended in time. Each one holds a trace of memory: some are lined with prints of her mum’s doilies, another made from one. Others contain hand written text, family photographs, the house she grew up in. Each box casts delicate shadows that stretch beyond utility, suggesting memory, absence, and quiet order.

This work is both a reconstruction and a reverence—each box holds a memory of care. A quiet kind of love, wrapped and contained.