Haecceity - family, object and memory

Haecceity- Family, Object and Memory is an examination of the layers within familial history, generations, objects collected within lifetimes and their interrelated personal and social memories. This paper links the philosophical thinking of medieval theologian John Duns Scotus, his theories of Haecceity which connect individuation to family our collections gathered in lifetimes and our unique “this- ness” within family. Linked with the Scotus notion of Haecceity each artwork made for the exhibition component of this project contains its own this-ness, using printmaking processes to construct unique objects that contain their own individuation. Each series of art works in this project holds anecdotes of family and oral histories. The art works include many contemporary notions of family, childhood, domesticity, the dwelling as a container and the more abstract depictions of flux that occur through change over lifetimes.