I construct immersive, forensic environments that examine trauma, ruptured memory and the instability of the self- through processes of material rebirth and “redeath”. Here, decorative surfaces glisten before they threaten- I am interested in these unstable thresholds between the ornamental and the abject, where beauty does not resist horror but contains it. Fragmentation is not aesthetic; it is structural, a door that refuses closure, an archive that implicates the viewer as witness, investigator and perpetrator. The outcomes of these approaches to show how the restaging of “holdable artefacts” within their “native environments” can be a method of repair and a record of damage. The partial renewal of the traumatised system incriminated through installations of “waiting areas” in which what is discarded continues to haunt what is formed. Turning the act of viewing into a negotiation between belief and doubt.