These small wooden boxes have been created for smaller and more intimate exhibition spaces. Whilst directly influenced by my Memorialising Disease project they have found their own identity as repositories of memory containing memorabilia and small ceramic viruses and bacteria.

Tuberculosis

Smallpox

Black Death

Cholera

Influenza

HIV and AIDS

SOME MORE IMAGES FROM MY NEW BLOG MEMORIALISING DISEASE.  (actually it’s a new name for the original blog)  https://memorialisingdisease.wordpress.com

SMALLPOX FLOWERS ARRANGED TO SUGGEST HOW THE VIRUS GROUPS TOGETHER IN THE BLOOD STREAM

CHOLERA WORMING THEIR WAY OUT OF THE  JOSEPH CONRAD NOVEL TYPHOON WHICH DESCRIBES STARVATION AS WATER SUPPLIES BECOME CONTAMINATED BECAUSE OF CHOLERA AND DYSENTERY. 

TUBERCULOSIS VIRUS ARRANGED LIKE FLOWERS IN A MILK BOTTLE SUGGESTING THE IMPORTANCE OF VITAMIN D IN ERADICATING THE DISEASE.

INFLUENZA FLOWERS BALANCED AGAINST A HEN EGG THE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT IN FLU JAB PRODUCTION

BLACK DEATH PLACED INSIDE A SYMBOLIC RING SYMBOLISING HOW QUARANTINE WAS USED TO OVERCOME THIS SHOCKING DISEASE