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Nina
from : Chester, UK personal object : a bracelet My mother gave me this gold chain bracelet to wear for my graduation last year. It was a piece of jewellery that my dad had bought for her before he passed away in 2006. I have never taken it off since. It reminds me that you can carry your past with you, but not be weighed down by it or constantly reminded of it. The bracelet reminds me of where I have come from. Between my dad’s passing away and my graduation, there were difficult periods; to have gone through all that and end up graduating made me wish he could have been there to see me. It was particularly poignant because, in my final year, I wrote an elegy for him, which was one of the most difficult things I have ever done. To know his death became part of my work and my degree was important to me – you can’t help it when bad things happen to you, but you can decide what you are going to make of them after. chosen artwork : Bursting Shell Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, 1915 I chose this artwork because I identify with the disorientation of the piece – I see the encircling vortex and am reminded of Yeats’ gyre and the cyclical, repetitive nature of time. This piece is dense with dark shapes surrounding a changing light. I am drawn to this because I often find the passage and experience of the present disorientating – those acute times when you remember so clearly where you have come from, but seem to have forgotten how you came from there to here. |
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