This isn’t someone that you have to leave behind explores the ways we imagine and remember our future and past selves. It unpacks the emotions of early adulthood, and the narratives of growth, healing and self-discovery of this life stage. Each glass is engraved with a letter to my younger self. While the one to my 19 year old self holds more reflective, drawing links to present day and the the past and being reminded of feelings from that time that I’d forgotten; the ones to my 20 and 24 year old selves speak to the aftermath of specific events, and offer support, care and validation to those times of pain and confusion. The wine glasses refer to a personal memory of buying homewares when I shop I was working at as a teenager was closing down, in the hope that I would be able to move out soon and need my own glassware, but speaks more broadly to the domestic space. Cracked, lying down, and propped up in unexpected ways, the arrangement of the glasses is reminiscent of a scene you’d find the morning have a house party. The distorting of the glasses reflects the mutable nature of our sense of self, memories and imaginings, as well as the emotional experience of feeling pushed and pulled by different expectations and ideas of how things should be done.