Roaming the Theatres of Memory, amidst the Afterlives of Others. Like the elements of the memory theatre which assisted the orators with memorising their speeches, the symbolic traces of the cemetery present small clues to the departed. The mnemonic forensics release only the merest trace. What is the subtext of the draped urn of mourning as opposed to the burning urn of undying friendship?
Greeting God, Lyttelton, June 2009, JBShaking hands. A farewell to the mortals or a greeting of god?
The hourglasses, the chains.
Olives, oaks.
City of the Dead, Linwood, June 2009, JBOpen books and broken columns.
A pillow and a rope.
Cluedo or the Game of Life?
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