Skeletons and skulls are a recurring theme in my work.
Once I saw a centuries-old ink painting of a skeleton doing flower arranging, and I was struck by its tenderness and universality. After all, we all have a skeleton inside us: the calcium deposit that carries us upright through our lives.
My skeletons and skulls touch on the memento mori (live now, while you are alive!) but also on the idea of death as a return home. They feel like a physical symbol of the soul.
I created the sculpture below, Wheel III, to visualise an inside/outside paradox, the body’s need to be able and representative as it careens through life, and the inner life of the soul, a fragile and joyful glimmer dancing in a garden.
They are your inner support system after all.
