The knives have undertones of the bodily, of
use, of everyday intimacy. They talk about violence and broken families. Estate becomes a reference to inheritance of property, possessions, heirlooms
passed down through generations. Familiar and domestic, they ask to be used,
but the blades bend and poison the food. Their heft belies a softness and
vulnerability.
Cast, they become generations of
themselves, reproduced with failings each time.
They sit as relics; fetishes of family
life.
