Photo still from the series: ’The Songs That Saints Sing Have No Ending: St. Andrew’s Church, Claxton, 2019-2021’. 

As the title indicates they were all taken at St. Andrew’s Church in Claxton, Norfolk (a very small village just over 8 miles south of Norwich).  As church porch’s predominately face south all of the pictures look towards an East or West facing niche.  The flowers were photographed as found, without the knowledge of the flower arranger as I wanted them to retain their sense of functionality.  Given the structure of the niche, painted over and over on seemingly countless occasions, and the arrangement of the flowers (gathered from local hedgerows, fields and gardens), represented a knowingness of art history, in particular 17th century Dutch flower painting.  Although the pictures vaguely chart the changing of the seasons and the liturgical cycle, they show the first signs of decomposition and embody the symbolism of a momento mori.