Random Wednesday in March

After my dad’s body was removed from the house, his chair retained the impression from where he sat and his shoes lay on the floor. 

Random Wednesday in March is a sculpture created in the long tradition of memento mori, a Latin phrase meaning “remember you must die”. Traditionally memento mori art works use images of skulls, decaying food or broken objects. In a departure from traditional imagery, this work emphasizes the absence of an individual. Empty space dominates the form. Even the empty shoes and depression in the chair’s cushion are created from empty space. The chair and shoes exist as tenuous lines fleeting in their existence. 

The title emphasises certainty of fate while denying specificity of time.