my mother's shoe sugar, water, glucose The theme of this peice is childhood wishes and how we experience the past. In particular, it centres upon the memory of how my sister and I used `play' Cinderella by dressing up in my mother's clothes and shoes. The resurrection of this pleasure is symbolised by a shoe cast in sugar, emblematic of ideals of growing-up and femininity. However, over time the sugar melts and slowly crystalises, evoking the collapse of these aspirations and the mutable nature of memory.

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