Artmaking for Jill Miglietti reflects her connection with the external and internal environment and how they continually shape and inform each other.  

Remnants from the artist’s own lived experience reside in the materials used for this body of work. Each tooling box and length of copper comes from machines that have run for hundreds of thousands of hours, sustaining a family business for two generations; each found object, ceramic and piece of cloth the result of a lifetime of making and collecting. 

Together, they combine to soften the blow of obsolescence, the reality of time and technology. Transition in life is mirrored in the repair and re-framing of what remains, honouring histories while allowing their passing, and making space for the present and future. 

The very terms of existence of these materials, their remnant status, have become the impetus for change, and the vehicle by which the journey of personal transformation is being navigated.