Five generations of Ann's family have called their house home, and as you can imagine a lot of stuff accumulates! and Ann tends to have the trait of association objects with memories (some would refer to this as 'hoarding') These pieces or collections of items are mostly correlated from the detritus of belonging accumulated over five generations, to Ann they represent the 'others before her' a loose DNA, that she had brought together astatically to create sculptures.
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