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Please allow a few days for careful preparation before dispatch.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInternational shipping is available. 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My brother died years later, at the age of twenty-two. The shell remained.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor this drawing, I asked my daughter to hold it and pose for me. Watching an object from my own childhood pass into her hands brought together two different moments in my life — the family I came from and the family I am raising now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere is an old fascination with holding a shell to the ear and imagining that we can hear the sea within it. What we actually hear is the resonance of the world around us. I began to think of memory in a similar way: the past does not return unchanged, but is heard again through the circumstances of the present.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawn in charcoal and graphite, the figure emerges from a darkened interior while the shell is held close to her ear. 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One child points the gun towards him as he extends his hand. The gesture remains ambiguous: is he showing the children how to use it, asking them to put it down, or simply participating in their game?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI was drawn to the contradiction within this seemingly ordinary scene. The children are innocent, their actions understood as play, yet the object they imitate belongs to an adult world of violence and consequence. The title \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInnocent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e leaves the question deliberately unresolved: who is innocent here, and at what point does innocent play acquire another meaning?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe drawing is made on paper I created by pulping earlier prints and drawings. Fragments of those images remain within its fibres, although they can no longer be seen. 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