Demelza Watts - Hot and Cold

2022
2 Cotton Handkerchiefs
33 x 33 cm each

The work is two handkerchiefs one printed with the image of the ocean on fire, the other with an image of the Sahara desert covered in snow. It's a reflection on extremes, change and our relationship to the planet and its ecosystems. I chose handkerchiefs unknotted, as when I was a child I remember being told that you put a knot in your handkerchief to remember something. The lack of knot here leaves the question of is this something we forgot, or something we are choosing to not remember.