Dolls and masks were assembled in topographical manner into constructed tableaux on the scale of children’s playthings. However, although the images reveal close detail, familiar visual logic does not operate in this work, rather the experience is surrealistic. The eight images, presented as diptychs, tell a story about birth and death, in a series of opposites, extremes, or limits.

These images were inspired by the death of the photographer Murray Johnston, who died on the 3rd of January 1990, shortly after my first child was born.

They were published in Portfolio Magazine in 1990 and exhibited in the solo show at Stills Gallery in Edinburgh in 1989.