Memory is all we are.

 “Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.” Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

To represent lost memories I have cast a paper doilie in wax inside a metal disc. I used a paper doilie to represent the sentimental memories we hold in our mind. However brain diseases such as alzheimer's disease can destroy these memories. By casting a sentimental object in wax and then burning a hole in the middle I wanted to represent how memories can become stuck in the back of the mind and begin to degrade as these diseases spread through the brain.