A purely digital work - one of my pieces explored in my "day works" - part of a series of portrait busts, which look at human animal archetypes, specifically bird and human hybrids. The Ibis image/archetype stems from my early childhood on a farm in Zimbabwe.
Along with the Ibis and its associations to Thoth, the god of the death/underworld in ancient egyptian mythology the image of the Zimbabwe bird has always been a poignant symbol in my mind. I grew up with skeletons and taxidermy in people’s homes - The mounting of animal heads and sculptural busts have a similarity in presentation and it’s a need to monumentalise nature and create totems of remembrance that I will explore with these "day works".
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