Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Ariana Fraser

Say it plainly, or say it again

For Éama. My pocket change is scattered on the table with all the Negronis I drank for the two of us. Liquid red contrasts the shutter green that closed me inside my room with you. We invented our own language with symbols for the ritual of our time. I'll know you across all time, I'll keep making this drink for us. My pocket change accumulates, I can't wait to share it with you. "Vessels and Vestiges" is a history of belonging/non-belonging told through the physical remnants of intimacy that take shape alongside memory. In these personal reflections, the ephemeral meets the tangible within the dwelling, revealing the stories of experience witnessed, and carrying forward a recollection of embodied existence.