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    A triptych installation named 'Preparing For Loss' comprising an open wooden cabinet containing a hardbound booklet titled 'Heir' containing poetry and photography. A small wooden side table containing a laser cut poem on a stack of rice paper. And the third element a Phonograph playing a wax cylinder field recording taken from the top of the Seven Sisters Cliffs in Eastbourne.
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    Preparing For Loss, Lily Petch, March 2023, wooden cabinet, wooden side table, Edison Fireside Phonograph, wax cylinder field recording taken from the Seven Sisters, Eastbourne (00:03:00), 'Heir' hand bound booklets, laser cut rice paper. Dimensions: Cabinet 68 cm x 138 cm x 34.5 cm, 'Heir' booklets 21 cm x 14.8 cm x 0.3 cm, Side-table 45 cm x 56 cm x 29 cm, Phonograph 61 cm x 67 cm x 35 cm

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    An A5 sized booklet of poetry with faint black and white 35mm photographs of water, aircrafts, roundabouts and grave markers.
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    Preparing For Loss, Heir, March 2023, inkjet printed on Offenbach bible paper, 6gsm Kizuki Kozo, bound with hair. Dimensions: 21 cm x 14.8 cm x 0.3 cm

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    An arrow shape hole dug out from a patch of soil.
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    Proto-type, Lily Petch, November 2023, soil. Dimensions: 30 x 30 x 7 cm

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    Four replicas in the image of Road-sign, floor painted arrows made from white plaster, placed in four spotlights leading down a dark corridor. Cracks are present in the plaster which gradually increase during the duration of the piece, recording the footfall of the visitors in the space.
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    Post/Proto-type, Lily Petch, February 2024, plaster, dimensions: arrows 89 x 32 x 0.7 cm

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    A large red brick sculpture laid on the ground of relatively human proportion, containing a stack of hardbound books. A smaller box-shaped yellow brick sculpture beside this holding one of these books nestled in soil.
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    The written unit, signs, grave markers and the left behind object, Lily Petch, October 2023, reclaimed Luton Red bricks, yellow London stock bricks, soil, 'The written unit, signs, grave markers and the left behind object' hand bound hardback book containing poetry, research and photography

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Lily Petch – BA/BFA