Sarah McWilliams, Earthly Things (JL Boyle)

Framed Watches

25.5cm x 51,5cm x 7cm

In the spirit of the Victorian ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’, Sarah McWilliams has collected objects together, exploring the value of sentiment, the patina of nostalgia and the hoarding of personal relics. Compositionally ‘Earthly Things’ creates order from a hoard, excavated from belongings that have been collected, inherited and found. The construction of this fictional archive of ‘readymades’ alludes to a narrative, the symbolism and juxtaposition of items suggestive of a fairy tale; where keys once opened doors to other worlds and shoes transported the wearer to strange imaginary lands.