Objet: Memor Makes Homewares for Holding Memories

The Cincinnati, Ohio, artist Maxine Midtbo’s houseware studio Memor makes contemporary vessels inspired in part by American folk memory jugs. Sometimes called mourning vessels, memory jugs are adorned with coins, mirrors, buttons, and other small objects associated with someone who has passed — a tradition the artist revived for her series of homeware. 
Growing up, Midtbo lived in 19 houses over the span of 18 years; she relied on the objects she carried from place to place to t