Artist's Statement

These pieces are based on the work of Bert Hellinger’s Family Constellations, which looks at the family as a collective soul, revealing that each family has a strong bond, regardless of what it seems on the outside, and regardless of whether the family feels or knows it. It highlights that situations that pass down generations and also our connections to the dead family members. Family constellations is a practice that can help and heal what seems like an impossible situation.

In these pieces of artwork I have engraved poems onto mirror polished steel so the viewer is looking into their own reflection as they read the text. The engraved words are a metaphor to how the past patterns and beliefs of the family are almost carved into a person before they are even born. The small ceramic balls are placed in particular patterns and some are faintly coloured to illustrate the patterns passed on though generations.