Memory vessels

Lately I'm becoming aware that I'm not as comfortable with the idea of impermanence as I thought I was. I feel it is ironic that the one constant within everything in life is the fact that it will change. To think about this feels painful to me- I feel the loss of the things I know and love. Even when the change hasn't happened yet, the inevitability brings a sense of doom. There is a beauty in impermanence though. It is the thing which allows us to feel. If everything remained constant, nothing would be exceptional. This forms a conflict that I would like to explore further in my art practice. 

I want to focus on memory, because it contains the duality of both a fleeting and enduring nature. I arrived at the idea of crafting memory vessels because I want to make something that shows both the beauty and futility of trying to contain something that is intangible and impermanent. I see everything as clay that is formed and re-formed over and over, and so I think it would be fitting that they were ceramic vessels. 

There is also an element of fragility to ceramics that reflects the fragility of memory. I think it would be interesting to hang the vessels to emphasise this fragility and the tension caused by this reminder of the impermanence of the object. Another idea would be to use natural elements to transform the objects, for example placing them in a stream and letting them corrode, or transforming them with fire.