Dad

Grief is a strange, messy turmoil of emotions. One minute you are OK, life if bright and happy the next, dark moments take over and you are not OK. Memories of medical equipment beeping, tubes and wires crisscrossing around someone who’s not OK – the confusion of the whole situation are echoed in the shape of the work. The coiled rope expresses what was used to keep him alive, and now it is searching for a path to connect to the afterlife to find him, hoping he is OK. The wrapping of wool connotes to traditional burial techniques such as covering remains with shrouds or winding cloths. All we can do is to hold on to treasured memories as tight as possible while letting some just unravel and fade away.