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AFTER THE TSUNAMI
Artists were invited to make site-specific works as a response to the Tsunami, to be placed in Holy Trinity Church, South Wimbledon, during Easter Week 2005.
"The Tsunami makes me think about the forces of nature, which are both terrifyingly powerful and miraculously balanced to allow safe human life most of the time.
I started with an image of rocks, seen in the Lake District, to represent the earth's crust on which we have our existence. I printed it on delicate Japanese paper to convey the fragility of the apparently solid rock and because Tsunami is a Japanese word. The colour, Mars Violet, is also called Caput Mortuum, meaning Dead Head, and reminds me of dried blood. I tore the print into several fragments and combined it with a blurred map of the Indian Ocean, manipulated in Photoshop and also torn into fragments, to suggest the violent movement of the earthquake and the ocean. The resulting collage is suspended with thread to emphasise fragility. This was the basis for the large version using monoprinting techniques shown here."
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