Death - Things Find You

Assemblage made with found objects during a 

Back To Books Walk curated by Katie Smith

Naturtiums growing wild in a compost heap

A electricity cable sign broken by traffic

Willow for weeping or the making of crowns.

Things that have meaning seem to find us

when we least expect / most need.

Pricilla Miles nee Holland RIP 

2nd April 1934 - 9th Oct 2017

We must all walk on whilst waiting 

for the sun and new life to find us.

Petri Project by McFarland & Singer

I took part in the open call out - I don't know whether the piece was ever included in the DNA Exhibition but I called the petri dish Bloodlines - Leaf, Twig, Feather, Wing. The circles are made from left over prints made with twigs, leaves, feathers. The pinked circles are attached to each other like a chain. I couldn't manage a double helix but some circles and halved, quartered and folded to represent the way we inherit some parts of out forebears DNA. The red ribbon is the blood that courses through us. The structure can be left popping out of the petrie dish and if it is squashed and lidded it represents the way traces of our physical being is compacted and composted over time. We become fragments but sometimes there is trace enough left in those fragments to tell our story.

Link to the call out Petri Project by McFarland & Singer

About the artists

The DNA Residency and Exhibition