Shroud 

Shroud is an installation that engages with the contemporary art world by relating to the themes of perceptions, representations and infinite ways of distorting the human structure. Shroud avoids identifiable human characteristics such as facial features and are reduced to abstracted shapes. These artworks that are anonymous on what or who they represent or portray, yet at the same time the sculptures are universally representative. With most figures containing both hands open towards the viewer in a welcoming pose usually used in the portrayal of religious figures such as for example the Virgin Mary, these standing and lying figures yet hold a something disturbing and uneasy about these non -gendered, head sunken, and distorted bodies. The sculptures contain different references such as the nailing of the figures to the wall is referring towards the nailing of Jesus to the cross compared to the lying, wrinkled, and lifeless flesh-like portrayal of skin in fabric form is influenced by the display of the bog bodies. This installation contains dualisms such as the conflict between what is present and what is absent, in this case both the identity is hidden but there is still an abstracted or uncanny representation left behind in its place. Shroud is influenced by the artists research into irregularities, distortions, contortions, mummified bog bodies, anatomical structures stored in museums and twisted perceptions of the human form that once started as an illustration process, but now has been completed in a sculptural installation.