After Life 2024

After Life 2024

Peach tree, hosta leaves, assorted ephemera
Size variable

The sculptural installation After Life, which features a well-preserved peach tree suspended upside down in the centre of the gallery space, suggests ideas of transcendence, being uprooted and displaced while still possessing a strange elegance. The tree lightly turns from the gentle airflow of visitors to the space, shadows dancing above a gathering of circular forms arranged on the floor below it.

With the nest of dried hosta leaves that extends from a truncated centre branch, this piece works as a metaphor for the vast gifts that spill from life, even after the physical form is expired. Or about entanglement and interconnectedness, about beauty in all its forms. After Life disrupts observational expectations, presenting an invitation to embrace all aspects of the human experience; to shed the muddy confines of fear and delight in the wonderment of our existence.

Photography credit Toni Hafkenscheid & the artist