Łódź́ Blouse Trilogy’ explores new thinking around inherited memory. It employs a historical photograph taken by Henryk Ross, in the Jewish Łódź́ Ghetto, Poland (1942-45). The contemporary viewer is fully aware of the events that lay ahead for these individuals; Goldsmith uses the image as a universally understood symbol of innocence, suffering, a portal to our past and a direct link to the scientific theory which supports the piece. 

The wearing and circulation of Goldsmith’s clothes, her mother’s, sister’s, and her daughter’s is elemental in this work as is the evidencing of Goldsmith’s own mother’s significant trauma and its subsequent transference to her children; what is passed down, transferred, inherited? 

The research references the emergence of scientific findings to suggest there may be a permeation of experience passed between mother and child Goldsmith’s research aims to explicate narrative in worn clothing, illuminating the notion that experience can be passed between generations. Significant outcomes are substantiated by scientific knowledge and present opportunities both didactic and for personal insight/growth; pertinent to us all, the work asks what do we knowingly or unknowing carry with us?