My current work addresses themes of grief, childhood and food through personifying my coping mechanisms, which is the comfort found in food. I make enlarged sculptural versions of my comfort foods, particularly food my late dad would have given me and my sister, and I place the sculptures in comfortable, vulnerable positions. Through doing this I believe I am comforting and protecting the thing that protects me from my grief, whilst also creating humour to hide my sadness, through the absurdity of food in places it wouldn’t normally be.

The materials I use are important to me as they remind me of a time of innocence, naivety and play. I intend to capture small snippets of life in sculptural installation and through the lens of the camera to act as a celebration of the ordinary, everyday life, an insight into overwhelming grief and the use of food to combat and comfort that. The relationship I have with food can be dictated by the toxicity of diet culture, but through making this work my aims are to act as a therapeutic release from the recent loss of my dad and food and body shame.