My final exhibition was based around life, death and the natural cycle of substance - throughout the Worlds most precious and over looked materials. My theme was based around metamorphasis and how for us the world we live in may change but the cycle will still go on - the years will still pass by and like each chip of wrinkled bark, each whithering leaf filled with age provoked decay, the world we live in will end but then live on through creation and new life.
The materials used are themselves all catogorized as one of the following: natural, sustainable or recycled. In each way I have tried to capture the authentic nature and rustic feel of the worlds most beautiful forms. The three Bodices which stand alone have been made using sand, leaves and bark. The sand was collected from Formby Beach in Southport, the leaves (already seperated from thier natural source of life) have been taken from Delamere Forest in Frodsham and finally the bark has been carved from a fallen tree in the woodlands before Hale Lighthouse in Hale, Speke. The floral material hs been recycled from a set of old curtains doomed for the waste bin.
Everything you see has been handmade, hand stitched, hand painted and designed by myself. The abstracted butterfly like structure has been designed to hang above staircases and from ceilings - resembling the essence of flight and the feeling of freedom through life. The spider-like installation was designed in theory to combine us - as human beings to the Worlds most common creatures and even though there are so many differences - we are all alike through one common ground: that one day we will feel the cycle ending for us but as we say goodbye the world will still go on.
