I like to explore the passage of time through furniture - wooden furniture in particular. When made into a piece of furniture, wood contains a trace of the tree it originally came from. It retains its growth rings, despite being cut off from the habitat that fostered this growth. The creation of wooden furniture is evidence of the way that the natural environment is shaped to accommodate us, as I depict in the piece Tree Shelf. Similarly, Memory Drawer shows traces of two different pasts - that of its previous owner/s, in the form of sun-exposed wood, and that of my own, in the form of clear resin. The sculptures contain two different histories - that of the natural environment, and that of the man-made environment.