Like jewellery you’d lend
                        to a friend

////////;;pattern palm,,palm—----glass cabinet ornaments;,
considering my,,(,,self,,;;;;{{portrait}}

I often think of Lautoka and Suva 
Flying there for weddings or 
funerals,,
,mostly.
With each trip came trinkets,,,,,,patterned fabric,,,,,,,,,,,,,,magnets, you know 
Everything palm tree                                                  (hidden objects)

Mum misses where she grew up

Found///////Assorted,,,,,,Assembled;;;;;; 
Adorned,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
‘’’’’’Lautoka markets

My nani bought me a t-shirt of Ninja Turtles and Batman
I was thinking about this bootleg crossover leading up to my grad show in 2018

So fresh, so market
hits of summer;;;;;*;;;;;

We used to eat these red ice blocks that my nani’s neighbour made
                                                                                 "the ice block lady” 
I remember the rough road (we walked barefoot) to get there 
They weren’t Calippo’s
but they were really good:::::raspberry and condensed milk

/// Adidas ///
Sport,,fun,cti,on;;;;;fash’’’’on,,,,,

Formations,, ,, ,,repeated{{{{{

I never saw adidas as punk,,, 
until I saw you use 3 stripes///

I brought a yellow floral shirt home the last time I visited,
pretty much the same design as a fabric piece from your show,,,,,,,,,,,,, 
‘I remember you’    —-I almost forgot about it

|||corrugated| iron,,,,waves,,,,

My uncle lived in a separate shack up from the family home 
concrete slab, to dirt, to wooden board
,,,,,steps leading up to a corrugated iron out-house 
an old print shack

silk screen frames stacked against the walls|||||| 
Printmaking was in our family

///PopXSuprematismXLautoka///

Mum has test prints on pieces of fabric
images scattered
 
Mickey Mouse next to a black rectangle 
Text—---reading,
“Mickey Mouse says… it’s nice 
IN LAUTOKA”
,,,,,,,,,,, I think she would like ‘You/Me/Us’

====={home}{comfort} plush
|transitional object|========BA(umf)TMAN x Ninja Turtles

When I outgrew my Batman x Ninja Turtles t-shirt
my mum made it into a cushion/////////a single bead for a constellation
(DI)st(Y)le

Ripples in the sea
flowing, evenly
                 ,corrugated
,,pierced by light,,,,,,,,*****guiding memories

Tradition| and |commodity
--p’’’
‘’–0p—03m—41nt1n9--

A song sang by the sea
A poem in Mum’s bathroom
A_dornments    ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,on a fabric scroll, it moved to different rooms over the years
/words of the ocean/
/of longing,            of farewell,/
                     of home;;

Everyone in the family gathered in the lounge room {{fan rotating}}
They all wanted to watch Mr. Bean, not just that movie with the Whistler's Mother painting
The earlier tv series too. Your Early Video Works are sooo good

,found and,,,, 
shhhhwossshhh//chhhh////schhhhhwuuuuuw////chhhhh 
|||mixed;;;;;

Adorned in sound///////monument—--al-l is/
Have you ever been to Yah Yah’s? It was our go-to back in the day
,,,,,that Whitney Houston song used to come on all the time.

Community
///sharing///    Wall of /sound,s/and

Like jewellery you’d lend to a friend
                    for an occasion’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
Moments embedded in objects.    ;;;;;slowly fragmented
like
         waves
       caressing               and letting go

,,,,,*,,,,,

All
is
well
in
my
world