Kaleena Stasiak’s artistic practice engages in material and textual investigation both inside and outside of the studio. Simultaneously looking through the lenses of artist, amateur historian, archaeologist, and cultural anthropologist, she explores methods of history consumption to address the relationship between the past, identity, and craft. Friedrich Nietzsche describes his theory of eternal return as the recurrence of the universe’s energy an interminable number of times across infinite time and space. Exploring the repetition of history as a theme, Stasiak presents a gilded kaleidoscope of fictionalized memories. Domestic objects become iconic symbols of a misremembered past, fragmenting and refracting to create an echo chamber of nostalgia. This seductive sentimentality contrasts with Nietzsche’s warning that the circularity of time is a burden of the “heaviest weight.” With levity and gravity, Stasiak mirrors and distorts the past as a way to distance the present and offer hope for the future.