2024 - ongoing series of installations from research of apology gifts.
14 flower bouqets

 I asked people who had experienced violent partnerships whether they had also received apology gifts. The room is permeated by a distinctive olfactory experience. A composition of vivid hues and shapes encourages the viewer to examine it more closely. The handwritten notes, which are also the title of each bouquet, provide context and illustrate the way in which the flowers were given to a person, usually to repair a relationship. Red Calla Lilies, wrapped with a satin ribbon and accompanied by a note which reads ”I got flowers even though he didn’t mean his apology, and also a designer purse.” Can the repeated gesture of a gift of reconciliation be a deliberate strategy of manipulation and control, does the commodity value of things gifted stand for the ‘buying off of guilt’?