Title: OFFICINALIS I  

Year: 2020/21   

Medium:  bronze

Dimensions: 45 X 50 X 45cm

Concept: This work is part of a series of portraits of Aloe Vera plants taken from my mother’s home-land in Italy, which in turn were planted by grandmother. To this day my mother uses the fluid from these plants to heal skin ailments. I uprooted one of the Mother-Plants and re-rooted it in my home country in Ireland. These works to me are migrant, landless fossilised memories and personal healing signifiers, with a reference also to the Rhizome theory of connectivity - theorised byDeleuze and Guattari ( A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1980).