“Each twig is important, each rock is news” takes its title from Anne Sexton’s poem “Eighteen Days Without You”, written in 1969. The work here is a meditation on the mundane, on the small objects that fill our days and our homes and our plates. Rotting food, dying flowers, and the marking of time through decomposition and collection, ceramic sculptures, organic materials, collage, and found objects both communicate with each other and reconfigure themselves into unknowable entities – everyday items made unfamiliar. The works interrogate why we hold onto some things and not others. What is worthy of keeping? Are our identities defined by what we collect, and how do we give objects their meaning?

These ordinary objects, arranged with reverence, act as a seance of the self – they conjure identities and moments in time, preserved in clay.