Bound.
Bound addresses the theme of isolation and the intrinsic value that we give to the people that we love. A human body, that of my best friend, is in a state halfway through levitating and drowning in a swelling mass of black substance. It stands to represent how prolonged forced isolation and distance can start to erase the bond that keeps people linked to each other and their shared experiences.
Its conception was aimed, along with Matter, at revealing the hidden, and incorporated a reflection on the condition of the Covid-19 lockdown, when everyone was forced to stay locked up at home, possibly in a foreign country, cut off from all loved ones. A crushing feeling that extends its scope to situations like memory loss, degenerative diseases and, perhaps most relatable of all, depression.
The more we try to hold on to something, especially something such fleeting as a memory, the more it will slip us and fade away from us. That is why when you try to literally hold on to to one of the jars, grabbing it, the shadow of the memory it contains disappears.
Each jar contains a specific memory of my life in Bologna, before moving to London. Instead of collecting jars of sauces, Pacco da Casa presents the future prospects of collecting memories in your cupboard, creating this scalable deposit that preserves them in a near-physical form.
