'Heavy & Light - An Installation'

". . . The caterpillar which hangs in the aerial
and temporary tomb of the cocoon,
changes into the inert chrysalis, and then
comes out into the light in the perfect
shape of the butterfly; the wings are still inept,
weak, like crumpled tissue paper, but in a
few instants they strengthen, stretch and
the newly born lifts into flight. It is a second
birth, but at the same time it is a death:
what has flown away is a psyche, a soul,
and the ripped open cocoon, which is left
on the ground is the mortal remains."

Primo Levi
Butterflies, 1985

Site Specific Installation, St James Parish Church, Grimsby, August 2008

Sixteen delicate 'heads' suspended in the beautiful architecture of the Grade 1 listed building, as an expression of the ephemeral and beautiful nature of life. They blend and change with the light, on occasion completed by shadow.

Six of the heads remain in permanent installation.