People and Other Living and Dead Things and the Matter In Between

A ritual of thank you, thank you, thank you.

Visitors are invited write a thank you card to something they have loved and lost and place it into the installation.

Thank yous are written for the big stuff and little stuff and stuff that goes unnoticed. We thank family, friends, pets, neighbours, exes, the person who fixed your hair cut and the person who let you sleep on their sofa. We thank the weather that one evening, the home you grew up in, your favourite earrings you can’t find anymore, the book you dropped in the bath, the houseplant that just never made it, the dance moves we used to be brilliant at and that amazing meal you didn’t get the recipe for. 

We thank people and other living and dead things and the matter in between.

All of the cards are made from seed paper, which are able to be made my local community members with recycled paper and marigold seeds. Cards are later planted in local plots of land.

Developed with At the Libraries, at Crosby Library in 2024 to launch the Loved and Lost programme. Originally created at Islington Mill for the All We Have Exhibition (2019), at the end of a year with IMAA.

Banner Created by Tara Collette, with set from Linny Venables.