By examining how intimacy is held, received and communicated in daily life, these works use gentle and introspective processes to locate care practice toward self and others as an inherent part of the everyday. This narrative of everydayness is presented through homely but mundane objects, providing an entry point for the audience into the work where the familiarity of these small domestic objects creates the possibility for intimacy and connection. They are recognisable as objects of use in the kitchen when preparing food for ourselves and loved ones, sewing tools for mending clothes and fabrics we warm ourselves with, nostalgic toys we owned as children, and flowers from the garden pressed and preserved.
These contemplative daily practices embody a feminist method of validating practices of care associated with domesticity, while rejecting the patriarchal notions of external productivity and capital value. The work is imbued with that sense of domesticity; though seemingly meaningless, these ordinary items are a constant presence in daily life and are made beautiful not in spite of but because of their mundanity. These paintings are a product of and prompt to observe the world with tenderness and care. Noticing the sacred rituals and rhythms in everyday life is a practice which fosters a careful practice of intimacy toward self, others, and the world we move through.