Fragments

Cast recycled glass, mixed media

In Fragments, I continued exploring the relationship between water, memory and the landscape through a series of wall-mounted glass compositions. Using multiple pieces of cast recycled glass, I assembled layered arrangements of colour and transparency, incorporating handwritten passages within each shadow box.

The writing consisted of personal memories, poetic reflections and imagined recollections of what water might remember. Partially obscured within the glass, the cursive handwriting remains largely illegible. Rather than communicating specific messages, it acts as a trace of human presence, suggesting the accumulation of experiences that cannot be fully recovered or conveyed. Colour became a way of exploring seasonal change, with different palettes reflecting the shifting character of the landscape throughout the year. The assembled glass fragments hold these impressions in suspension, bringing together personal memory, imagined environmental histories and the material's own previous life. The work considers memory as something incomplete and layered, where fragments of experience remain visible without ever revealing the whole.