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Notes to Self

We speak to ourselves in passing—often harshly and carelessly. Notes to Self is an invitation to reconsider the inner monologue.

This work began as a personal exercise in reframing: rewriting the quiet, corrosive thoughts I had been cycling around on. The post-it notes were a tool to reshape my beliefs. This project gave me a chance to ask, what would it mean to make those reframes permanent? What if they weren’t temporary affirmations but permanent truths?

Each ceramic post-it note in this work carries a reworded belief. They are sculpted and glazed by hand, then adhered to a mirror where the viewer’s own reflection becomes part of the piece. Could this be your voice too?

I made a prototype of this piece in 2025. Instead of fired ceramic, I made the sticky notes from air-dried clay and painted them with acrylic and marker. But the paint peels and the notes break. I wanted something lasting.

So, this year, I set out to remake it as a more permanent work. I learned how to use the slab roller; I hand cut many post-it notes; underglazed many post-it notes; and then I had to experiment with ways to write the notes. I tried painting the words with a liner brush, and I tried applicator bottles. I tested the underglaze pencil, but it was insipid. Eventually I found glaze markers, which worked the same way as acrylic markers. This is my real handwriting and this work is fixed remembrance of some of the notes I have had on my real bathroom mirror.

This work was exhibited at Sol Gallery, Fitzroy, August 11th - 23rd, 2026.