"As I sat at the bedside of a petrified, helpless woman, wrists and ankles tethered to the bed, voice obstructed by machinery, I was filled with an overwhelming sense of abandonment. Even in this state void of autonomy, I still begged her to not waver from her role as my mother, to hold me, to shield me from such pain. Unable to bear the possibility of ultimate separation, ‘Tomb’ suspends us together, our binds intertwined and shared. As her body is materialised in my shameful reduction of her to her womb, we return to our original union. 

As my final act in the event of my mother's sickness, I worked to gather and pull from my unconscious self. Feeding into a physical reconstruction in hopes to access and exorcise trauma, whilst contemplating my own internalisation of the social demands set upon the role of the Mother. ‘Tomb’ probes at the paradoxical tension between boundless love and unobtainable expectation within the mother-child dyad."