Home as Qualia: Reflections on the miniature object.
My practice-led research project Home as Qualia: Reflections on the miniature object is an ode to places of memory and devotion—the home. I hand-craft miniatures, boxes, and lockets to examine how home is a central point of memories and people’s lives. I challenge the concept of memory and what home means by confronting familiar motifs associated with memories. I reference my own experiences and my relationship to the flux of time and my environment and cite research that examines how tangible objects can carry the essence of a person.
By creating miniature scale objects that can be worn on the body or carried in a pocket, I examine how objects can be re-contextualised based on where they are in space and time, and the connection a person can have to them. Additionally, I examine how people can imbue their own stories on tangible artifices. The objects created form a whimsical collection, serving as a life archive, capturing the feeling of pleasure that is often associated with miniature objects.
I utilise various methods such as drawing and writing in conjuction with traditional gold and silversmithing techniques such as roller printing, fabrication, hinge and mechanism making, lost wax casting, roller printing and many more.
I value the preservation of memories through objects, the ways in which spaces such as homes can recall memories and the exploration of the human connection with the past, specifically the way that objects can preserve feelings and memories to serve as a tangible connection to intangible experiences.
Love from, Angelica
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