THE VOID

The series I have created underwater, to me, really examine this idea of The Void - the halfway point between life, consciousness, reality and the pseudo-reality, the superconsciousness, death.

Many of the images feature a body halfway emerging from the water. Water is a cleansing agent, in a spiritual, theological sense and in a practical sense. In Christian mythology, it is the water that allows one a clean slate. It is used to Baptise and heal. I used it in my first series, which featured the bird, for a few reasons: to allow the bird movement it would otherwise be denied, and to also utilise the water a symbol of life. The bird was bathed in life; martyred, stolen, sacrilegious.

The sections of the body that are not seen represent this idea of "crossing over" into the unknown realms. This is probably the series that draws my other images together. The ideas of the bird being the guardian, the soul-carrier, the connection between the spirit and human world, the transition between the human world and that of the death, the idea of rebirth and the concept of that "half-way" point. Any other advice to tie these altogether in these last couple of weeks would be greatly appreciated!