This piece looks to address the ideas of self-reflection,
internal conflict and objective understanding in the face of acts of terror.
How we make sense of the senseless and provide a plausible context in which to
process inhuman acts perpetrated on a defenceless community.
This work is invested with nuance that subtly suggests
meaning and addresses the question - why? Fernando Pessoa said in The Book of
Disquiet, “I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at
reality face to face." Mr Pessoa is not alone in his outlook and sometimes
it is not a reality that provides for us but our own distractions and daydreams
which give us the answers that evade us in our everyday lives.
My use of an avian subject matter is commonplace in my work,
which combines it with an ethereal setting to conjure up a dreamlike context
and ties directly into the title of the work, providing a question and answer
concurrently.
