In Waves

The End Is Nigh

Bottle with origami canoes, torn Bokashi prints, balsa wood paddle and ribboned text

2019

The End Is Nigh (front view)

Bottle with origami canoes, balsa wood paddle, torn Bokashi print and ribboned text

2019

The End Is Nigh (rear view)

Bottle with origami canoes, balsa wood paddle, torn Bokashi print and ribboned text

2019

Panacea

Bottles with origami canoe on torn Bokashi print with crystal tear drop suspended on gilded human hair and typed poem on washi paper

2018

Panacea (detail)

Bottle with origami canoe on torn Bokashi print with crystal tear, suspended on gilded human hair

2018

Nami

Bottle containing Bokashi print

2018

To Someone Beautiful And Far Away

Bottles containing gilded chrysalis, lino print on washi paper and typed poem on washi paper

2018

For The Faithless

Bottles with dugout canoe made of paper and balsa wood, torn Bokashi print, balsa wood paddle and typed poem on washi paper

2018

For The Faithless (detail)

Bottle containing dugout canoe made from paper and balsa wood, torn Bokashi print and balsa wood paddle

2018

In Waves

A collection of small installations using a combination of printmaking, poetry and sculptural elements to address the loneliness of grief and that liminal space between life and death.

The bottles hold tiny origami canoes that drift, mournfully, across shards of bokashi prints - with or without their paddles - printed images or typed verse or objects such as ‘tear drops’ and gilded chrysalis’s. Utilising the familiar form of a 'message in a bottle' the works describe a sense of tragedy, despair, hopelessness and inevitability. They may be a form of farewell, an apology, a missed opportunity, a declaration of loneliness or a desperate plea for help.

Chambers Edinburgh Journal in 1840 describes messages in bottles as “the means of communication between the living and the dead”.