Unspeakable Loss
Selected for the #SussexTogether Festival of the Arts
As I followed, with growing disquiet, the sharp rise in incidence and fatality rate of COVID-19 worldwide, I was increasingly perturbed by the bland statistics, which obfuscate as much as they reveal. I wanted to disrupt that blandness, to honour – in some small way – the human tragedy behind the graphs.
“Unspeakable Loss”, which tracks the daily cumulative record of fatalities, has been a pilgrimage, an attentional discipline. The struggle that this work has presented me with is my offer, not to avert the wrath of the gods, but in honour of the deceased.
Embroidery on scrim, needles, spools and oak dowels.