The Work

"I STARTED THIS AS A PERSONAL JOURNEY BECAUSE I WANTED TO BECOME MORE COMFORTABLE WITH DEATH ITSELF AND IT’S SOMETHING WE ALL SHY AWAY FROM." 

To remember, recollect, think of, bear in mind

Over 900 NHS staff and care workers have lost their lives to the Coronavirus while caring for the ones we love. Key workers are risking their lives on a daily basis

The work is a memorial to those sacrificing their lives on the front line and a reminder for future generations not to forget them. The images are records of the people who have lost their lives to keep us safe. These images speak to us, hold us accountable and force us question our own mortality. When we die we all return to nature.

During the Covid 19 pandemic, we will remember isolation, loss, grief, anxiety, fear, and the weather. The beautiful weather has made the isolation more bearable for some, however it not fit the pandemic, it confuses and conflicts the message. 

The images have been made through this period of lockdown, using the ‘chlorophyll process’, a process where you need immense natural light to burn an image onto the leaves. They have been exposed for days or weeks to allow the natural process to occur. The green pigments of the plant will darken accordingly, resulting in a ghostly image on the leaves with a haunting sense of loss.

Lost Objects and Time is a Machine

The works circles around the themes of death, loss and mourning and explore how our relationship with these themes is often caught up in our attachments to the material world. The photographs of these lost objects appear planetary-like objects looming out of the dark, Weeks’ work haunts us with questions about the material body, its afterlife and the limitations of belief.

Spiritus

The work considers the relationship between direct experience and visual interpretation to draw the viewers through a multilayered journey. This series is an exploration of the mysteries surrounding the relationship between the living and the dead. The images and audio piece were made using ghost-hunting equipment, which are believed to communicate and capture the afterlife. The works intends to draw the viewer into an immersive, intense visual experience and leave them to question, interpret and contemplate.

Minutes and Chapels of Rest

Who we are? Where we are going? And why? 
In our culture we do not like to discuss issues relating to death or even mention it even though the one thing that we all have in common is that one-day we will all die. As humans we are fearful of death and do not want to face it, in juxtaposition to this, we are also fascinated with death and like Freud agrees; we all have an ‘unconscious desire to die.’ This is a personal project and journey investigating what happens after we die? These series are exploring the journey of the body through cremations and the uncanny spaces of the chapels of rest. This project will bring us all closer and together and open up the taboo surrounding death with my photography, and push the viewer into spaces where they wouldn’t ideally choose to be.

One last view

These beautiful locations have a hidden history of death. These locations are notorious suicide spots where people have “chosen” to die. The people who have committed suicide are completely absent. The viewer is present and is put in the shoes of the suicidal: looking at the last landscape seen before death.

Move to the edge and share in their final earthly view.