HALYCON TOMBSTONES
Halcyon Tombstones #1 2020, Plaster, cement, bible pages, gold foil and embroidery cotton, thread, chain and glow in the dark gravel. 120 x 230 x 85 cm Halcyon Tombstones #1 2020, Detail Halcyon Tombstones #3 2020, Plaster, ink, acrylic paint, railway sleepers, glow in the dark gravel 145 x 150 x 35 cm HALCYON TOMBSTONES My work explores the tension between the non-linguistic linear quality of objects and impermanence. This relates to our fleeting imprint left behind as we plough through life accumulating experiences. In the process of recognizing this past tense of happier idyllic days, the powdery essence of the plaster has solidified into these abstract tombstones representing a graveyard of the intangible. Through my artistic process I am discovering a fascination for the liquidity of memory being poured out as an expression of lifeforce, time solidified and captured ...