Order of Service – Mum/Dad (redacted), 2025 

 

The reading of this book is in the unwrapping and viewing once installed.

The 16 panels can also be flipped, revealing Mum/Dad.

 

Installed on a table or plynth; 150w x 102d x 6h cm, comprising:

 

Double-side fabric cover, 150x110cm 

Box with lid: wood, acrylic; 72x30x6 cm

16 double-sided collages (adjusted pages from the funeral Order of Service for my mother and father); acrylic & pumice on paper on board (both sides), each 20x15cm

Box insert: acrylic and fabric on wood; 70x28cm

Box spacers - to hold the 16 panels in place: 4 small ones (then used to elevate boxes) / 2 longer ones (then used to extend the black at top and bottom of the 16 panels)

 

Installed -Mum
Installed -Mum
Installed -Dad
Installed -Dad

Mum 1-16

Dad 1-16

The plywood mosaic on the lid echoes a 1997, 100-piece work on paper, Swallows 1997 - a tribute to my parents and the land on which I live. See Paintings/1997: cover me in mud (bury me in wheat, throw me in the river).
The plywood mosaic on the lid echoes a 1997, 100-piece work on paper, Swallows 1997 - a tribute to my parents and the land on which I live. See Paintings/1997: cover me in mud (bury me in wheat, throw me in the river).
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