“It is one of life’s most self evident truths that everything fades, that we fear the fading, and that we must live, nonetheless, in the face of the fading”

— Irvine Yalom - Existential Psychotherapy 1980

What remains when the ‘work’ is done? What is valuable and what is rubbish, stain, irrelevant? These drawings and photographs explore the desire to find beauty in the things that are often missed or discarded. Some of the drawings have as their starting point the leftover stains from experiments with decaying fruit covered with different outer coatings. Collages are made from photographs of the process of fruit sculptures collapsing. Other photographs record the detritus from mess and chaos created by liquid latex, plaster, leaking sculptures, gold paint and black ink. The etchings take this exploration further, into the embodied and back to ideas of what is beauty? this theme took me back to earlier mono prints that relate to fading memory and loss.