Kelly Akashi: Heirloom turns toward loss and grief, asking how absence is held, transmitted, and given form. Bronze roses and irises cast directly from Akashi's garden — where her home and studio once stood — become relics of domesticity and care. A monumental rendering of an inherited stone ring, enlarged to geological scale, stages a confrontation with grief's capacity to exceed containment. Corten steel panels cut from her grandmother's lace tablecloth demarcate a space of interruption that resists closure, their weathering surface accumulating time as structural integrity. Glass works complete the exhibition, including a mallow plant — a species that emerges from disturbed soil — recreated with its root system exposed.
