Helen Faliveno
Statement:
Early childhood memories are often invented – stories remembered but altered by our own fragmented memories. These recollections are often associated with an emotion felt at a particular time, they are visions sometimes detached from any context and holding a dream-like quality. I remember a fascination with the miniature, specifically Polly Pocket, a minute, plastic doll and now I use these childhood objects as a trigger to evoke early memories.
Miniature objects create the notion that there is a small world, to which they belong, and toys can portray a perfect world that only reflects positive things in a snapshot in time, they may not give the bigger picture. My pieces have enabled me to transform and disrupt these small worlds, showing decay over time.
Reflecting on a mourning for childhood and the displacement of these artefacts suggest memories diluting or sometimes resurfacing.
