Hanging Together that explores historic and contemporary attitudes to Death. Each of the five artists has based works on personal, local and universal responses to the theme, which in many ways has become the taboo of the late 20th century. That a law, suggesting lasting truth, should hold that disintegration is the natural order of the universe is parallelled in the decay of that image.
Death is a time of review in life.
Images based around the word life are placed in five boxes of paper and wax. Carolyn Mason explores the fearful theme through boat-like constructions, destined to become ruins and footprints in clay, as an attempt to leave a lasting imprint on life. Twelve panels each contain an image evocative of Death which, although specific to past time, has a modern equivalent. The exhibition is in Greenside Cemetary, Alloa, and is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 19th May to 15th June between 11am to 4pm. To install artworks in an uninvigilated non-gallery location is to accept a certain risk, a risk that the works will be damaged, possibly destroyed.