Our trampoline mat broke last year, so I used it as a canvas for this piece about keeping memories alive, inspired by the trampoline game I played with my brothers that goes “Mummy, mummy, come alive when I count to the number five…” I decided to keep parts of the trampoline mat border and hardware to emphasize that it is a trampoline mat and highlight its upcycled nature.

As mummies were preserved for the afterlife, we can preserve good times through art, because the afterlife of a moment is in the memory of it. Balanced by numbers around (and centered on) the sarcophagus, this piece points to the idea that if you save a memory, reliving the happiness that it carries is as simple as counting to five.

The hieroglyphs featured across the work spell out the game’s incantation. Instead of holding a crook or flail like most pharaohs do, this one holds an oak branch for the tree whose leaves shaded and fell on our trampoline.