Station 7
Adorned pelt (for mourning) (detail), Embroidery floss, acrylic yarn, glazed stoneware, linen, 110 x 60cm.
Photograph by Danni McGrath.
In my work, the body's boundaries are seen to be shifting and permeable; our edges are easily breached.
At once a shroud, a mourning garment, and a 'pelt' or skin, this piece uses tactile processes of adornment as a way of coming to terms with death.
Meditation
I am finding it hard to watch you, Jesus,
to see you struggling,
to see you on the ground.
Into your silence I want to shout:
‘Why do they keep on hurting you?
What have you done wrong?
© Ruth Burgess and Chris Polhill
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