Created in the wake of the death of a family member, Elegy is a meditation on the dual nature of living and dying; a study on the simultaneous pain and joy of transformation.

Death appears black and white, so very certain. But it is full of contradiction; it is sorrowful and light, visceral and beautiful, extraordinary and mundane. Bones — powerful symbols of the physicality of life and death — embody these opposite states: when transformed by fire, they have the strange and beautiful ability to produce both black and white pigment.

​For this series, sun-bleached found animal bones were prepared and charred in the coals of an open fire, and ground by hand into pigment. Worn cotton bed linens (our place of birth, dreaming and dying) were shredded, reduced to pulp, and made into paper.

​Every mark made has been shaped by the uncertainty of the making process, and the play between the elements. Through this series of intimate explorations, what had seemed to be starkly black and white became more complex, revealed not to be separate, but rather deeply and delicately connected.