Drawing Breath : emotional journeys : a struggle for breath: 

 These works employ ideas concerned with systems and serendipity and are a body of work created using a process led approach. The methodology allows opportunities for serendipity and creates unique and individual images. It forms the second part of the work created for ‘Noises in my Head.’ The work was created to reflect the emotional journey I experienced during that time. I would travel from Manchester to Norfolk where my father lived and at night  would lie awake and hear his laboured breathing. This work reflects his struggle for breath. I began using the images on to ceramic plates shortly afterwards. During my father’s Greek Orthodox funeral, part of the graveside service involved a dinner plate, used by the deceased in their daily life, being thrown into the grave to break against the casket, signifying the end of mortal life. The plates that I use are all patterned and have a previous history of use, but are discarded by their original owners. To retain the relationship between the plates I choose plates that have the same underlying shape (circular) with no decorative moulding but are different size. The challenge is to retain a memory, or echo, of the original pattern/ image/ alongside my “Breath” drawing.