Be Still and Know

2016 Cast Glass, Bronze, Plaster

Shown first at Truro Cathedral in the ‘Create to Commemorate’ exhibition

There is a little book, in the old cathedral, that lists the names of all the children that were still born or have died young. A book for the families to remember those who's lives mattered even though they did not live them as long as many of us would. Still born, not often spoken about, these lives are worth commemorating and worth remembering.

Each plaster vessel was made to represent a child, unique and made beautiful. Viewers were invited to scoop a small amount of water from the larger glass bowl and decant it into one of the smaller ones as an act of remembrance for a child or baby they have known and loved; an act of quiet reflection and reverence. The vessel then absorbs the water into itself and slowly the water evaporates out into the air.