The focus of this ongoing work is an investigation of materials and memories. An exploration and reflection on ideas and recollections from a childhood seemingly saturated with mortality yet pleasantly innocuous. My work references a family history comprised of a long line of funeral directors, this influencing my own relationship with mortality and the desire to create gentle confrontations of one’s own death. Using a variety of materials, both readymade and traditional, the works convey suggestions to the ever-present reality of impermanence, whilst hinting at playfulness and imagination, drawing on personal histories and experiences around death and western customs. I reimagined items long associated with rituals of death as places of play or introspection, defamiliarising them in new contexts and spaces whilst still emanating a peculiar sense of nostalgia.