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Material Intimacies explores what we share and what we hold close, using salt, sugar, suspension and weight to reflect on personal acts of preservation, deterioration, memory and the unknown. Featuring the face of my son and a sugar cast of my breast suspended on rust dyed fabric and a display of sugar cast breasts on the floor, I am creating a shrine-like space dedicated to my role as nourishing mother, sexual being, and the fragile balance of one to the other. This delicate balance is challenged further by my recent diagnosis with breast cancer, adding to the push and pull, love and fear, hold and release of motherhood, womanhood and personal evolution.