Amy Peace Buzzard
Stirring, Still. 2023, text on tea bag paper.
A tea stain on the counter, witness to my present.
Material witness to a collective past. 2024, Aluminium.
I have been house sitting for my parents for the past week.
There are sheets of kitchen roll everywhere. On all surfaces that could, that would, potentially rest a cup of tea. They follow me around their home. They inform me that our axis’ are repeating. That I am tracing paths that are theirs. Fridge, sink, kettle, cup, I follow.
Stirring, Still. and A tea stain on the counter, witness to my present. Material witness to a collective past. are connected works questioning my habitual tea making, highlighting colonial histories embedded within, whilst situating this habit generationally. I look towards my domestic surfaces as absorbing, present to this habitual act and its history.
Kitchen roll catches the spill.