These pieces hover between specific meanings, physically and metaphysically. They are figures with echoes of trees, moth like creatures, cloaks and cocoons, decaying carcasses, silent sentinels... They are suggestive of decay and the underside of the woods, things that are buried or swinging in the trees versus the ethereal and magical, enchantment and unease, hidden desires and secrets. It is about concealing and revealing, what emotions and stories we bring to a woodland and those that have been left behind by previous generations. It is about a place of discovery, a magical place that may soon be lost. A place of quiet sadness. It is about the crossing of thresholds and individual stories that when added together create a collective narrative.
They are interacting with each other and yet stand alone. They are in particular a response to literature and the novels of Thomas Hardy but there are also references to mythology, fairytale, folklore, fashion and film and in this way I have tried to embody a sense of the past, present and future within them.