The exhibits for my piece were diy. I wanted every object to seem homemade, so that the writing pieces as well as their physical construction had a quality of authenticity and honesty. Every piece of writing I put in the show genuinely happened to me and was written about with fact, thought, and feeling.

I wanted my structures to be made of items found in the home: bed sheets, milk bottles, paper, paint, fairy lights, mirrors, plates etc.

My canvases were either written on or had writings stuck on, only one served the purpose of being an artist’s canvas (Growing Up was an actual painting). This was because, much like the use of the positive music combined with the negative writing, I wanted to have an odd contrast. Rather than just using paper, what is normally used to write on, I wanted the opposite surface. I needed to fulfill the idea of the gallery of exhibits in order to have the outcome I was able to achieve: a distanced but understanding and reflective connection to a person standing in view unable to communicate verbally, and only communicating by writings from the past (a one way communication from performer to audience).