What's in the Box?

What’s in the box?

We see an outstretched arm, fingers searching, grasping for what can be felt but can no longer be described. We hear, through an integrated audio-description, an attempt to put into words not only a physical description of each object, but its full resonance.

It begins as a favourite childhood game: a sensory box. A series of objects are turned over, examined, sometimes identifiable and sometimes not. It becomes a grappling with the poignancy and the limitations of memory. This work attempts to put words to sensations which are partial, misremembered, indescribable, hard to forget.

How do we hold memory? In our minds? In our hands? And when we’re not holding it where does it reside? In the shape of a handle, the scent of a flower, a particular shade of blue which reminds you of…