Coming from a childhood of migration I was constantly trying to keep a place close through an object, pressing flowers to keep and remind me of summers in Denmark or picking up shells from a beach in Kenya to show my grandmother in Scotland- this become a way of me shrinking the vast locations of my experience into something I could hold in my hand and then share with others. This process is not unique to me but rather a social function, to have and to hold. This feeling is at the crux of my work yet flows through to multiple forms.