360 (30x12)

This piece of work, consisting of 360 miniature coffins cast and carved from wax, was made over the course of a year, one each day, quite deliberately, as indicated in the title. The title also alludes to the meaning of the work in as much as it represents an average of thirty years worth of the twelve month cycle each woman experiences, and the average amount of unfertilised eggs she carries in her ovaries from the time of her own conception.
It was informed, in part, by the grieving process often experienced with the loss of fertility through the menopause, and infertility in general and the bearing that can have, but also on the burden of the choices she might have to make. In other words, it stands as a memorial to womanhood.
This work was first displayed as part of an installation in a basement of a Regency house in Brighton - the seven pickled egg jars were displayed in a rusting 1960s refrigerator - each element adding layers to the original concept and generating the possibility of a more ambiguous reading.