Scatter is a deeply personal and emotional exploration of the spaces between life and death inspired by my daughter’s eighteen-month journey through cancer to her death and by my own parallel journey as I watched her die and tried to cope with life without her. This project is born from the desire to make sense of loss, which might, in some small way, contribute to the understanding of grief in society. Initially, I had no plan to show this project, but the healing process demanded that I reveal it and not lock it away in the dark.

I have been developing this work over a number of years. This formed the basis for my dissertation. In this work I explore what death feels like when expressed through a visual medium. My own experience is that this is often not a peaceful transition for the dying person nor for those left behind. I explore the discomfort, the unhealthy and unwholesome nature of the liminal death space.