Textiles and the Acknowledgement of Unidentified Dead

The identification of clothing is one a range tools used by forensic anthropologists to aid the dead. Clothing and shoes directly indirectly represent both people’s bodies their identities. Where means allow, individuals will usually choose what wear each day, as part social or cultural identity. These are conscious decisions that an important aspect defines them inform how they perceived others.After death loved one, clothes often kept, act enduring presence. Clothes vessels containers, becoming reliquaries remind us owners. Shoes particularly embody idea transience movement from place another, city perhaps life afterlife existence no longer existing.Within my research I am considering unidentified deaths. What happens who cannot be identified? And does it mean society if human remains named?As artist approach these questions through creative practice, questioning space between acknowledging transition. Can previous acknowledged in way demonstrates care, without simply reporting adding statistics? Working bioplastic have created body work references questions.In this paper discuss practice theme acknowledgement This aims raise about possible consider, remember lives lived remains.