Carved Wooden Corner Cabinet
Throughout my childhood, this cabinet hung in a corner of the ‘front room’, over the piano, We used this room very little.
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Objects are not to be dismissed as mere matter, for things in themselves makes links with the human psyche; they connect us, directly and viscerally, to memories of people, places, and events.
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Clarice Cliff Vase
with guest contributor Elizabeth Adeline
The Ruin
One summer day in the 1960s, David and Ann drove up to our house in Wandsworth Common in the Ford Transit van.
My brother John and his boats
I remember where the idea of building a boat started.
Kuba Palm fibre textile
A visit with Suzi Gablik
Plastic picnic bowl
I noticed the bowl had been put in a pile ready to take to the recycling centre, and felt a surge of quite primitive panic, as if something precious was about to be lost.
Portrait
with guest contributor Ama Bolton
Paring chisel
I am constructing a mortice and tenon joint in a piece of timber, cutting to the scored lines with a fine saw, then removing the waste wood with a firm chisel and mallet.
Wedgwood Soup Bowl c 1880
At Turret Lodge, my grandmother’s house on Wandsworth Common, London, the front door was at the top of three wide steps.
Cake tester
“Come and help me see that the cake is done,” Elizabeth calls from the kitchen.