Since my mother Audrey died in 2020, I have been working on a series to acknowledge her life. Creating these drawings has been part of both the grieving and healing process, where I have been able to express the intensity of our shared experience, of both her life and her death. It has enabled me to honour the beauty of the ordinary family life she made for us. Mum was devoted to her housekeeping and to all the paraphernalia attached to this activity. It gave her life both purpose and constraint, yet it defined her. She was connected to, and cared about these everyday things as if they were part of her own body, so when I work with these remnants of her life I can still feel her energy embedded within them.