Kirsten McAskill's Half-Eaten Bag of Sweets (Locker Remnant)

The opened, half-eaten bag of sweets is a small but evocative object, representing the interrupted moments of Kirsten’s life. Catherine finds it at the top of her locker, its casual remnants marking the routine that has been violently ended. The sweets are a mundane detail, but they carry emotional weight—they are a fragment of Kirsten’s personality, her habits, and the small joys she took in her day-to-day existence. When Catherine packs the bag into the cardboard box, it becomes another piece of the puzzle that is Kirsten’s memory, a reminder of the life that is no longer.

The opened, half-eaten bag of sweets is a bittersweet artifact of Kirsten’s daily life. It sits among her other belongings, a casual reminder of her presence in the locker room—perhaps a treat she saved for later, or a shared snack with a colleague. Catherine handles it with care, placing it in the box alongside the other mementos. The sweets, now stale and forgotten, symbolize the interruption of Kirsten’s routine, the small joys that will never be revisited. Their inclusion in the box is a testament to the incompleteness of her death, the way her life was cut off mid-moment.