With this soft sculpture, I wanted to highlight the importance of pets in our lives. When addressing the theme of home, I found my understanding of it to lie with those I care for and rely on in my life. With the soft texture of felt, I wanted to convey that calm feeling of being around animals, combined with a memory-like lens I so often place on pets who have passed on- it's a blurred combination of happy experiences and grief. I wanted to capture this memory in the way I imagine it, incorporating his fur as part of the process. 

Through this artwork I was aiming to convey the idea of home. To me, home is a place of permanence, stability, and comfort. There is no material that can better convey the certainty of a home than the brick, because it forms the basis of the house. Furthermore, the subject matter of a bed suggests comfort, and I spend a lot of time in bed. The toybox adds visual interest and is full of small memories of growing up. I started with a brick base, then sewed a rubber band onto a fabric sheet to make a fitted sheet to place over the bed, then I sewed the doona and pillow, which were hot glued on. The bedhead and box were made of foam board. Random objects were superglued into the box.