Silver Service
2020 - Present

I remember the gleam of silver serving trays at my grandmother’s house—polished just enough to reflect the faces around the table, never too perfect, always familiar. They were more than objects; they were quiet signals that something meaningful was happening. A gathering. A ritual. A moment to remember.

This body of work began with those memories. Each piece in the collection stands on its own, but together they tell a fuller story—much like a family. The individual works are distinct in voice and form, yet stronger when viewed in conversation with each other. There is a shared thread of connection, tension, and tenderness. Using silver trays as the foundation, I built upon these visual anchors with materials that carry their own histories: vintage photographs, fragments of textiles, old letters, and scraps of ephemera. Bound in wax, these layers become fogged windows into identity—partially obscured, softened by time, and left open for the viewer to see themselves within the work.

The act of layering is intentional. It's about how memory accumulates—not in clean lines, but in fragments, in stains, in stitched-together pieces of what was said, what was left unsaid. Each tray holds the complexity of family: the beauty of shared rituals, the struggle of what lies in between, and the weight of inherited roles and responsibilities. Silver Service is not just a reflection on the past. It is an offering—a place to sit with memory, to question identity, and to find yourself among the stories in these objects.