loss and anxiety over loss are more acute in the modern, technological era. elements of our existence are now as ephemeral as we had always feared; photographs are retained in digital space, as our selves and memories are retained in imaginary temporal space. correlatively, the difference between loss and absence becomes more evident. loss is the removal of something from physical existence, is the quantifiable of the two, and can be reliably documented. absence is more difficult to assess, implies the space occupied by something no longer in existence. loss is actual, whereas absence is phenomenological. the work involves ritual and the ritual object. it is an attempt to create secular rituals by which one can understand and seek a control over loss and absence, over what is lost or goes absent. everyday objects are de-commissioned, re-contextualized, opened or exploited, to find what, if anything, remains of us within them.