"Mended"  Playing With Leaves Project. 
 

​"Mended" is a series that explores that there is philosophy when repairing objects in a disposable world. It sees mending an object as a metaphor for mending one-self or sometimes each other.

 

As a leatherworker, I have mended a lot of items that people hold dear. ​ When mending these items I also mend a memory, a link to the past, an emotion. Sometimes an item gets mended beyond recognition into something new. Other times we preserve the memory as true to how it was originally, so as not to forget. Often, it is the goal to forget the past and move forward in a new direction. 

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These objects that I mend are often much more than possessions, they are small fragments of people's lives and they are now part of mine.