How we view life alters as we age. How we respond to life challenges also changes. Within this work I explore how we respond to life when faced with death, when all that we know is about the change. The way we view life alters with each failure, loss and devastation, ultimately shaping who we become.

This work examines life at its most fragile point. In 2019, both my grandparents became very ill, subsequently they both passed away within a very short space of time. This work was not only an exploration of the life that they left behind but was a cathartic process that stemmed from experiencing the loss of two people very close to me. Their final days hing in the air and its upon my last visits with them that most of this work was made. I was fascinated by the light that entered there home, I began to see everything almost through different eyes.

This work depicts two lives that are not out of the ordinary. A life that is lived by so many. The images capture a home that has been uprooted and replanted like an oak tree. ‘The Sunbeam’ refers to a term of endearment my late grandmother used to use to those closest to her. The irony struck me as I entered their home for the last time as light poured into each room making its presence known with extreme force. It filled each room and hit every wall, as though it was there the whole time, but I was only just coming to notice it. This work for me, adopted a comfort that even after those we have lost are gone, light continues on, remaining unmoved.

Photography

41x50cm

Framed under glass

Edition of 1