Charlotte Rogerson

Centred around the transition from childhood to adulthood, these works attempt to preserve the innocence of adolescence within found objects. Salvaged domestic items are reworked as reliquary, serving as a vessel for the sacred innocent spirit, to be kept safe, away from the current adult world. The works place the viewer in a transitional period; a predicament of staying or leaving the innocence in the past.

Coming of age is crepuscular. The quiet hours between day and night, where vision becomes fogged or obscured by the sun’s glare. This passage of dawn and dusk, beginnings and endings, allows for peace during this time of change and nature’s untameable rhythm.

The tensions between ferality and domestication, night and day, freedom and entrapment, childhood and adulthood, and the state of being in between, forms my series Preserving Adolescence. Through creating these reliquaries, I allow  a space to grieve, and let go of what was lost long ago. The reliquaries are a valediction to childhood. It is time to set the animals free, and be at peace with the setting sun.