Talisman

Domestic appliances from the recent past become cast as stony artefacts in Susan Milne’s Talisman. We encounter everyday devices that have undergone distortion in cement, to suggest a kind of cemetery for departed consumables. Televisions, vacuum cleaners and toasters invoke the home environment but speak poignantly of human absence. Like a museum to our time presented generations from now, the objects become moving specimens of our daily detritus.