A tea stain on the counter, witness to my present.

Material witness to a collective past.

2024

Hand pressed Aluminium kitchen roll and Poem printed on Tea bag paper.

 

 

I have been house sitting for my parents for the past week.

 

There are sheets of kitchen roll everywhere. On all surfaces that could, that would, potentially rest a cup of tea. They follow me around their home. They inform me that our axis’ are repeating. That I am tracing paths that are theirs. Fridge, sink, kettle, cup, I follow.

 

A tea stain on the counter, witness to my present. Material witness to a collective past. are a grouping of sculpture and a poem questioning my habitual tea consumption, highlighting colonial histories embedded within, whilst situating this habit generationally. I look towards my domestic surfaces as absorbing, present to this habitual act and its history. This work is a confrontation, an understanding that within the material of my quotidian colonial histories lie.

 

I stir my cup of tea,

Kitchen roll catches the spill.