These hand‑painted ceramic bowls, created in collaboration with ceramic artist Rachel Ho, draw their form from sugar‑boiling coppers once used on plantations across the Deep South and the Caribbean, while also referencing English Spode Blue Italian Ware (c.1816). Their shape and surface imagery work together to evoke the entangled histories of colonialism, trade, and migration.

Each bowl is painted by hand with scenes that give voice to both historic and contemporary socio‑political events. These include John Lowther, who founded the port of Whitehaven in the 17th century and played a pivotal role in the export of coal; the town’s 18th‑century lighthouse; and an Antiguan windmill, recalling the rum imported from Antigua into Whitehaven to be sold at Jefferson’s Rum Shop. Alongside these are images of flimsy dinghies crossing the English Channel, surveillance technologies, and the wider hostile environment—visual threads that connect past and present, linking immigration, politics, colonialism, empire, memory, object, and place.