In Keeping
Made in collaboration with my friend Kate Halling
Our intention with this body of work was to explore the vast thematic crossover in our creative practices of memory, time and sentimentality. Starting with Nina’s process of exposing images of precious objects to fabric, the images were then disassembled and reassembled into a quilted form by Kate. The impetus for image selection was the death of Nina’s grandmother – presented to Kate as an archive of loss, to tenderly observe and transform. The process has acted as an extension of Nina’s grandmother's estate dissolution, objects and memories displaced from their established context, with Kate acting as mediator.