Greystoke
Greystoke Parish Church, Cumbria had six chantry chapels, divided by oak screens. Each chapel would have a priest to say masses for the dead - if you could afford to pay for this service. Two pieces of work were shown, mirrors holding hundreds of dead flies and the second piece, a circle of elongated figures.
Chantry death and life - that which was once dead is now alive.
Generally unseen and disregarded, insects far outnumber humans and are vital in the chain of life. Here, flies associated with death and the decaying process, themselves lie dead. Crowded together there is no vision of the future until space appears .
Remembering - unknown lives
Elongated figures made in thin layers, slowly section by section, repitition giving time for thought, a meditation on the future. Each recalls the thousands of lives, people who lived and died in and around the village in medieval times, not afforded the luxury of a daily remembrance in the chantry chapel. Quietly the daily cicle of life continues
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Chantry death and life - that which was once dead is now alive.
Generally unseen and disregarded, insects far outnumber humans and are vital in the chain of life. Here, flies associated with death and the decaying process, themselves lie dead. Crowded together there is no vision of the future until space appears .
Remembering - unknown lives
Elongated figures made in thin layers, slowly section by section, repitition giving time for thought, a meditation on the future. Each recalls the thousands of lives, people who lived and died in and around the village in medieval times, not afforded the luxury of a daily remembrance in the chantry chapel. Quietly the daily cicle of life continues
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