Empty Shells 2011

Conceptually I want to explore death. I realise all along I have been doing so. At each stage of my artistic practice I have looked at an aspect of death in some way. I can’t seem to get away from it. It is this great unknowable idea that I need to try and make sense of. I know that I probably never will, but I want to try and explore it. I will not do it obviously like before where I become bogged down in the horror of it. I don’t want gore and guts, corpses and hopelessness. I want to tie this in with the other persistent idea of my practice; abandonment. Abandoned objects speak to me and there is no greater abandonment than death, when you think about it. Over the years I have collected shells, dead things, skulls, all empty shells.