Statement by Roberta De Caro
My current investigation focuses on tears as material of repair drawing parallels between the body’s healing process of expelling stress hormones through crying, and the artist’s way of transferring the weight of deep emotions into materials through the ritual of making.
This series of interlocking glass casts are a replica of a four-part slip casting mould, alluding to the object – the ‘lacrimarium’ or tears bottle – as a container of grief and to its making as a poetic act of reparation.
The materiality of glass embodies the inner states of the maker contrasting highly polished façades with unfinished surfaces, symbols of an ongoing process.
