Debbie David

The body of work begins in a domestic space, A childhood home, and the question of what that space has left behind. What is left behind on the surfaces and objects? In visual language that forms in a time where everything is simply observation

This body of work includes Paintings, on paper and on found objects. Each object holds a personal history. They arrive carrying Identity, Memory and Culture

The works also draw from Gaston Bachelard’s understanding of domestic space as psychological rather than merely physical, and Daniel Miller’s argument that objects are the means by which identity is accumulated and expressed over time.

The works ask to be recognised and not necessarily decoded. The domestic objects may not be from the same place or the same house, but they all hold the same feeling. The feeling of a space that was once the world, before observation became conscious.