Diary

“My mother died suddenly in Australia at the end of 1990 and Diary is one in a series of 10 prints were focused on memories of our relationship and a celebration her life. The frame suggests a box filled with objects. Inside the box are the letters that my mother and I wrote to each other on a regular basis. I used hairpins as a metaphor to suggest a code that we both understood and the closeness that we had despite the great distance between us. At the centre of image is a folded leather cloth that secretly contains a group of sapphires mined by her father that my mother had passed on to her three daughters. I regret that I never showed any appreciation for the gems or the role that my grandfather played in digging them out of the ground. Her death reminded me to have them made into jewelry for my sisters and myself.” – Lyndal Osborne