‘You Used to Love Me’
is a series of works that explores the abandonment of things we once found
precious. Bears’ are multi-faceted in their context, in that they not only evoke
feelings of sentiment and need, and one instinctively wants to hold and hug
them, but they also speak of the throwaway consumerism of the 21st century
that is not only prevalent in our need for ‘stuff’ but also our attitudes in
relationships. These notions are subverted by being showcased in the form of a
Teddy Bear. A precious possession