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The calabash (bottle gourd) is a point of nostalgic familiarity. A symbol of searching for homely comforts against diasporic discomforts.

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90.3 by 60.1 by 52.5 cm

Chicken wire, plaster bandages, acrylic paint, sand, pva glue, latex, thread, raw sheep’s wool, salt dough, ceramic, clear polystyrene sheet, paper and bricks

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"I can almost taste the sand" tells a story of fragmentation and nurture, of abstract displacement and reaching out to faded memories of sand. The gourd is questioning the multiple meanings and evolution of "home" in a diaspora.