Shira's professional practice is storytelling and her mother's passion is pottery, two of the world's oldest art forms. All The Things I've Lost uses these art forms to reinvent, recreate and honour lost childhood objects.
Shira Leuchter performs All the Things I’ve Lost at the Gardiner Museum.
During each performance Shira tells her mother about these prized items, and her mother tries to recreate them in clay, to make permanent what long ago disappeared and what continues to disappear and change in our memories.
Joyce Leuchter performs All the Things I’ve Lost at the Gardiner Museum.
The desire to materialize these objects also stems from changing intergenerational relationships: Shira's young daughter likely won't retain any of the memories she's made so far. Her maternal grandmother was suffering with Alzheimer's. Shira and her mother work together to reclaim the memories they have both lived, and to explore the vast gulf between the moments that the parent and the child share.