Thank you too for giving me the opportunity to contribute to a community project in a quiet but purposeful way. It was good to be invited to make work with unfamiliar materials, in a different way, in an unusual environment - stretching myself but within the supportive structure you devised (workshop, shrine brief and physically being there to unlock doors etc.).
In retrospect I think my installation
• is heavily influenced by Stanley Spencer's Resurrection paintings. . . the gradation of colours, figures helping one another out,
• uses an empty skin glove as a symbol for the spirit of the dead . . .the body no longer there (a notion that arose initially during the workshop session)
• reflects upon the bewilderment of those who have just died who take a little while to realise they are no longer earthbound and can take flight
Thank you for posting this. It's heartening to read that the project is diversifying into new ideas and actions.
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