Token Collage

The recurring shapes in my 'Monument' series are inherited from my previous project in which I restored an artist's leftovers and offcuts back into rectangular panels. Through repetition, these random, coincidental shapes start to become familiar, recognisable. I'm interested in their value; whether nature is alive in these formations. If so, could they become symbols; something we respect or worship like the crucifix? Inspired by the decaying graves in Brompton Cemetery and the stoney appearance of my handmade paper, pulped from leftovers and glued to canvas, I've created a series of monuments commemorating nothing in particular. Each picture stands vacant, awaiting a viewer who may cast their own loving memories or, perhaps, feelings of emptiness upon it. This piece is NOT framed. It is an A5 collage mounted on A3 white cartridge paper. Ideally it should be framed to keep this white, negative space around it - see 'Tribute' and 'Testament' which I posted recently.