Still life with skull 1 Medicine and taxonomy – scientific sensibilities	Still life with skull 2 Skull used for anatomy teaching	Still life with skull 3 Aklo signs (winter)
Still life with skull 4 Texture. What it feels like.	Still life with skull 5 Dilemma	Still life with skull 6 Culture is about symbols
Still life with skull 7 Collage	Still life with skull 8 This is about my aunt (father’s elder sister) now 101 – wooden frame: she was a wood-worker + tool – scarf + wooden measure: also made and repaired clothes – model of brain: she has dementia – artificial flowers: these now decorate her room – photo of young woman: looks rather like she did – map of Ireland: as a girl and young women went [there] for her holidays – brass fire iron: similar object in her house – keys: we sold her house	Still life with skull 9 Word of mouth
Still life with skull 10 Things that appear on shores	Still life with skull 11 “We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow … loved and were loved …”	Still life with skull 12 Violent death
Still life with skull 13 Skull, box & flowers	Still life with skull 14 A butterfly died too young!	Still life with skull 15 I started it with a couple of objects, thinking that the photograph was at the end of the day, with everyone included. As I started assembling the elements I thought about my mum, who died exactly a year ago and I went to get more things as a little, ephemeris, alter in her memory – Sorry mum, I could not be there at your death bed, but you are travelling the world with me, now that you are no longer imprisoned in your body ….
Still life with skull 16 An impromptu take on a Frida Kahlo painting. The closeness of life and death ….	Still life with skull 17 Matters of scale	Still life with skull 18 Death of the book?
Still life with skull 19 “When alive, a man of speech into minds I sought to reach. Voiceless now that I am dead a vacant stare, idealess head, yet through eyes, I’ll linger on. Don’t look away, or I’ll be gone.” - A man of ideas.	Still life with skull 20 Crystallised in time: visible thought, life beyond words and matter	Still life with skull 21 Inside-out, outside-in
Still life with skull 22 The space-time beyond human beings. The missing front teeth leave a space for time to fill in. The materiality of the bones shows us the limitation of the measurable quality of space and time. While we human beings distinguish ourselves by the immaterial intellectual which is beyond space and time.	Still life with skull 23 Who am I?	Still life with skull 24 Peace and war
Still life with skull 25 See beneath the surface	Still life with skull 26 The one that got away!!!	Still life with skull 27 This may be Chinese of Japanese? Travelling to escape dictatorship? Always mindful of rule!!
Still life with skull 28 Enlightenment conversation for the hard of hearing