Silent Apocalypse (detail)

Healing Bowls

The two bowls are made of paper pulp and swathed in cotton bandages. They each have a small square cream coloured piece of tarlatan, which bears a relief print of hands. This being a visual representation of puppets hands that hang uselessly on nails. These are attached to the bowls with very small brass safety pins. Within the full installation the bowls were situated on the floor either side of the box table. They had brass discs, thrown into them like coins to street beggars. There were also some thrown nearby on the floor. On the ‘coins’ in Medieval Latin text are words which when translated describe those states of grace such as love, hope, charity, faith, tenderness which represent those qualities that have fallen from the face of mankind in the shadow of the conflict.