Hanging Together that explores historic and contemporary attitudes to Death. Each of the five artists 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 was in Greenside Cemetary, Alloa in May-June 1996. 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.