Many of us still have family button collections that were originally kept in old tin containers. These reused boxes hold a treasure trove of stories and family memories, and contain buttons that were saved, carried through time, and passed down through generations.
In the Button Box series, I mould and cast my mother’s button collection into ceramics and finish them with underglazes, oxides or glazes. They are often intermingled with saved cotton threads and re-homed in a found tin container. These collections are an example of ‘things that we carry’ and are quiet reminders of past ways of Being: a time when we collected items to re-use, did not dispense of our clothing, the term ‘fast-fashion’ did not exist, and we mended as a means to re-purpose.
“These relics I create are a quiet reminder that solutions may lie in how we lived in past times.”
Size:1.6" H× 4.7" W× 10.6"D
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