What We Leave Behind Vol.2
What we leave behind considers the ways knowledge is carried across generations, not only through objects, but through gestures, recipes, techniques and the quiet acts of making that become embedded in everyday life.
Often passed from mothers and grandmothers, this knowledge forms an intimate and living inheritance: something that can be carried in the body, remembered through repetition, and recalled through the senses.
At the centre of the work is the recipe as a vessel for memory. A recipe can outlive its maker, carrying traces of a person through the particularities of a gesture, an ingredient, a smell, or a measure that was never written down. What is inherited is therefore more than a set of instructions; it is a way of remembering someone through the act of making.
Suspended above the communal table in The Yard, the large-scale textile brings these individual memories into a shared space. Its textile base is coupled with smaller fragments created by participants through a series of workshops. Each fragment emerges from a personal recipe or memory of home, translated into fabric through stitching, weaving, painting and other forms of handwork.
As these fragments accumulate, the work becomes a collective textile, an evolving archive of the people who gathered around the table and the knowledge they chose to share. Individual memories remain distinct, but are held within a larger material structure, much like the way memory itself is carried: from one hand to another, from one generation to the next.
The work asks what remains when the moment of sharing has passed. What traces of a person, a place or a home can be carried forward through something as simple as a recipe, a gesture, or a piece of cloth?
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