Memories/Histories
assemblage of found objects
wooden doll, coral, brass letter, dry beetle my uncle brought back from the war, tin for shaving gear ... also back from the war.
Book spines & hand-painted flyleaves, the detritus that can never quite be thrown away
by Dale Copeland, 2009
Private collection
| Friends and relations give me the things that they can never quite throw away: their fathers brought them back in their kitbags and kept them as though they mattered. Is that all that history is, the bits pieced together from memories & souvenirs? |
Dale Copeland lives at Puniho, coastal Taranaki, New Zealand
More of her art can be seen in the Showcase section of the Virtual Tart website.
email Dale at dale@tart.co.nz