‘Historical icons’

“Drift” (recycled wood, epoxy clay, paper pulp, fabric, graphite, gouache, watercolor pencils), by Kitty Wales, in her show “Traces,’’ at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass., through Feb. 8

She writes:

“Discarded furniture and utilitarian objects represent an archive of the remembered past; the contents of your mother’s roll-top desk, table settings of a final meal shared with loved ones, or rusty tools from a workshop shed.  These domestic items can serve as historical icons animating and triggering associations. They are traces of what we leave behind, and are the building blocks for this recent series of sculpture.’’