There will come soft rains

 The museum would like to share its  mission statement through the poetry of Sara Teasdale.

object category 2
2019
20x30cm
wood, glass, shell and metal

Nothing left on the table

1. Your Best China is Cracked.
  Old lace edged doily with red embroidered ears. 2017

2. The Bloom is Gone,
 Fragile but still beautiful tray cloth with white embroidered ears. 2017

3. You Don't Need These Anymore.
  Unused linen napkins with embroidered ears. 2017

Weep all you wish

'Weep all you wish my little one'.
Postcard sent to the museum.10x14cm
2015
envelope,feathers,elizabethan pin,words.

Fled is that music

glass dome perfume bottle, bent drawing pins, broken ear-piece.

10cm x 6cm
 2013

Presented by Mrs Steppatt

glass dome, burnt 1930s wedding dress, spent matches, paper label.
30cm x 60cm.
2010-2012

You and I are Earth

cutlery box, kid leather glove, pins, handmade lace, ribbon
40 x 20 cm.
2010

The pragmatic birthspoon

 cutlery box, poppy head ,wasps nest, paper label.
40 x 10cm.
2008

Helvetica is bad for you

half tone photographic plate, wasps nest, typed letters.
35 x 15cm.
2008

A rolling pingle

glass rolling pin, old pins ,beads.
30cm x 5cm.
2009

A wig in a bottle

glass bottle, wig, hair dressing scissors.
30x10cm
2008

Tea for Two

canary show cage, broken gramaphone record, handkerchief, broken tea cup and handle, ash, decaying edwardian beaded tunic, newspaper article, rose made from silver foil, paper

Miriam

pre-war lamp stand , electric cable and plug, light bulb,honey.

30x15cm.

2007

krokeboke

pill boxes, tape measure, lichen, pin tin, neatly folded handkerchiefs, victorian scraps, cutlery

box.

10x30cm.

2007

list machine

screen printing roller, shopping lists, thread.

20x30cm.

2007

little

suitcase, 1930's petticoat, photograph, chocolate boxes, mummified blue tit, lost glove, broken pearl necklace, wasps nest, pen nibs, bow tie and instructions, pins , fur , ring box, cotton reel , silver coin, paper.

50x75cm.

2005

Forget About Me

broken glass jar, rose stems, 1920's wedding photo , 1930's photo album, photograph of old lady, fragment of cine film of unknown woman, dead dragonfly,

20x35cm.

2007



 An old lady lives in a decaying  house. She has lived there since she was little. It is an entire universe of one person's existence. When her parents died the house passed to her ; the solicitor , now dead ,gave her all the appropriate documents and she went back home. There was no wake, no-one to ask after her. She just went home. Her house now.
There is gas and water but no electricity. She never had it installed ,or rather her parents didn't. Except they weren't her parents. They took her in. A young girl with no past and they had no children and they left her the house. No-one knows that now.

The Powdered Dress

powdered 1920's lace dress , poison bottle , antique baby spoon.

15x5cm.

2006