Laetitzia Campbell
Laetitzia Campbell is a British-French artist based in London. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (BA) and the Institut Français de la Mode (MA), and worked for four years in the luxury industry in embroidery before returning to her own art practice.
She explores what she calls “second-hand memories”: emotions passed down through objects, stories, and gestures, and the quiet ways we try to hold onto them.
The body of work “On your way home” is inspired by my father’s journey home as a schoolboy in Jamaica.
His way home becomes a metaphor for going back to bitter-sweet moments. Time has passed and these moments are no longer just memories, they are in fact what “home” has become.
On your way home,
What will you find ?
An old tree to shade your troubles,
That woman,
Who made your life so
humble,
The orange sun sinking,
A memory of your
peaceful self, enjoying,
thinking, reading, breathing.
Just Breathing.
Oh sweet painful memory
to go back to:
You, a book, the shade.
Nothing shades you now,
Not the tree,
Nor yourself.
On your way home,
you found nothing,
But regret,
Love,
And pain.
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