In this body of work Pressed Memories began with found wooden ironing boards and transforming them into marking stones, obelisks, or altar like pieces and in a sense creating a container for the lives lived.

The forms of these boards reflect and encapsulate the ritual of daily domestic labour and repetition that governed everyday existence for women over recent centuries.

The manufacturer of the wooden boards gave them the title The Queen # 1 or The Princess and I too was trying to elevate the mundane to the rarified. Paradoxically, linking these labour intensive, repetitive tasks socially assigned to women in the form of the Ironing Board. Then they are coupled with the Heroic /Goddess imagery that subtly plays with humour to the roles of women and their great spirit of endurance from the past to present.
