well there's just no getting around it... here are the works from the 'momento mori' series as part of the larger project... (I'll tell you a bit more about them if you survive the viewing)
'consumo cognitio'
(consumed knowledge)
interaction/photography
'comesum cognitio'
(consumed knowledge)
interaction/ photography
'devoro cognitio'
(devoured knowledge)
interaction/photography
Last year this dear old girl, part of my family's angus/limousin beef herd, died whilst trying to calve. This is a fact of life on a farm. Her dead body lay a few hundred metres from my house and each day I saw her in the distance - unmoving. Even though I would tell myself each day 'this is a fact of life' I still found her death difficult to digest. Knowing that it is a fact of life did not assauge my sadness or indeed guilt. Eventually, a couple of weeks after her death (and after the bloating, corpse explosion and initial stripping by maggots) I decided to take one of my encyclopaedia volumes to her stinking remains.
From the outset I knew that these would never be pretty pictures - but not everything in life is pretty....
