This body of work, Pressed Memories at the Maple Ridge Art Gallery, began with found wooden ironing boards transformed into marking stones, obelisks, or altar-like pieces, and in this sense, a container of the lives lived. The form notes the ritualization of many domestic tasks in women’s everyday existence. The manufacturer of the wooden boards gave them the title The Queen # 1 or The Princess. In these works, Pressed Memories, I too was trying to elevate the mundane to the rarified. The Heroic/Goddess imagery subtly plays with humour and paradox, the roles of women, and their great spirit and capacity from the past to present. Coupled with the sculptured pieces were the monoprints made in Italy, and that play on words with the memories of Florence that were pressed into my memory.