Sense memory: Peter Watkins’s ghostly reflection on grief and loss

Peter Watkins was nine years old when his mother drowned herself. In a moving new installation, he displays fragments of a life interrupted to explore how those we’ve lost live onIn 1993, when he was nine years old, Peter Watkins’s mother took her own life by walking into the North Sea at Zandvoort, in the Netherlands. Twenty years later, he began making the still-ongoing work of memory and loss he’s called The Unforgetting. This week, it is exhibited in a room in Pickford’s House in Der