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project description End of the World (Cape Point), 2004

Cape Point, at the southern tip of South Africa, was once believed to be the place where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet. It is one of those places that reminds us of our transience. End of the World (Cape Point) is a visual echo of that exchange. At Cape Point, I sensed, in a moment of intense spiritual awareness, the meeting between mortality and immortality.

The end of the world, like a thief in the night, can come at any moment. It cannot be owned or known yet, paradoxically, it is solid, ever-present, for the end is included in ‘now and forever’. There can be no doubt that the end of anything has an attraction and beauty of its own; a calm inevitability, or the promise of renewal.

Solitary Confinement (detail)
Sion, Switzerland
Lambda print on aluminium
95 x 125 cm
2003



This abstract image is a fragment of a room in the prison in Sion, Switzerland used for the solitary confinement of prisoners.

The anonymity and ambiguity of this image lend themselves to personal interpretation and response, while the title suggests greater, more universal human issues, alluding to hope, despair, freedom and power.