Victorian Mourning Shields
These shields draw from my love of Victorian mourning culture and its intimate artifacts of remembrance. Each piece draws from Irish, Japanese, and West African materials and motifs—reflecting the layered parts of my identity. Together, they imagine how mourning objects might have been adorned in the Victorian era through a fusion of cultures, serving as small shrines to memory, protection and transformation.
Created following the loss of my partner, these shields trace the slow architecture of mourning-how it hardens, softens, and ultimately reshapes the self.
