This chair is the physical outcome of her MA thesis exploring how grief alters spatial perception and the way we read objects, looking at how spaces speak through traces and how memories project onto physical matter. Drawing from the passing of her grandfather and the shifting atmosphere of her grandparents' home, the work examines how loss reshapes attachment.

In German, ‘Trauer tragen’ means both to grieve and to wear mourning, a dual meaning underpinning the work. She documented traces of daily life in her grandparents’ home, such as fabrics and worn surfaces, via silicone castings. These were transferred to steel through etching, where acid captured a ghost-like moment while destroying parts of the surface. The plates were bent and riveted into a chair, forming a spatial translation of the home. The work accepts that memories can never be recreated, only translated to be slowly lost.

As part of her MA thesis, the resarch paper The Body as the Home examines the emotional and psychological relationship between people and domestic space, on how it, like the body, carries its history in layers, marks of time, of care, of slow decay. 

Through reflections on the home of her grandparents, it traces how absence settles into the familiar, how memory clings to material, and how the act of grieving alters the way one reads a space. One notices what remains is both living and not.