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Traces of Stillness #24 re imagines the familiar form of an oil can as a quiet vessel for memory and material presence. Suspended between usefulness and obsolescence, the work reflects on how traces of care, labour, and neglect become embedded in the surfaces of everyday objects. The work holds a tension between fragility and weight. A translucent spout sits above a dense, weathered base marked by colour and corrosion, suggesting time slowed and settled into form. These contrasting surfaces speak to stillness not as absence, but as accumulation; history held quietly.
Informed by a deep engagement with glass, the piece treats material as a bearer of experience, where form and surface become a quiet record for touch, time, and lived experience.
Images: Adam McGrath
Acknowledged others: completed with the support of the Museum of glass team, Tacoma USA
