Since my last post about this project, I've built up my collection of porcelain artifacts. When assembled the installation is about 3 feet wide. I'm at a point where I feel I can take a break from constructing. After the final firing, I will turn my attention to experimenting with combining the forms with sand for installation.
Over the past two weeks, I've been consumed with researching my ancestry. I've always been interested in listening to my maternal grandmother and great-grandmother recount stories and oral history of my family but I've never actively engaged in research until now. I've been about to trace my maternal lineage back to the 1860 census and there is a high possibility that I have also located my 5th great grandmother on the 1850 census but it's impossible to know for sure because the slave schedules only listed people by sex and approximate age.
Uncovering records and sifting through conflicting information have raised a lot of questions for me concerning identity and legacy. This collection of miniatures in a way is a response to this.I haven't quite worked out how these will be resolved. At the moment, I aim to display them in a line rather than a pattern and on a shelf rather than the floor. I'm also considering constructing small boxes for each one. Much like my family research, there are a lot of question left to be answered.
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