SASKIA FLEMMING Collective Past, 2022

found bones and human hair

60 x 46 x 13 cm

This piece explores the idea of ‘small histories,’ the stories that don’t make the books nor daily conversations. The objects we keep have unique pasts, entering our lives for a transient moment in time. Many objects outlive us and transgress the modern trends that we live by. The skull was collected on my family farm, belonging to a sheep whose history is unknown. The hair is from my mum’s first boyfriend, carefully snipped decades ago yet still curly. I entangle these histories by fusing them into a single object, playing on the fleeting modern trends which sit in contrast to the materials’ past.