MARY BELL MODY

SIZE: 22” x 30”

MEDIUM: gesso and acrylic on paper

This work centres on communication, memory, and personal history. A human face gradually transforms into a typewriter, referencing a tool once used to write letters during wartime separation. The fusion of portrait and machine suggests how acts of writing can become inseparable from identity, carrying emotion, absence, and connection across time.

The worn, resting typewriter reflects years of use and the weight of stories it has held. By merging the human form with an object of communication, the piece considers how memory is preserved not only in people but in the objects through which stories are told.