Vessels & Other Objects, 2022-2025 The church of St. Gregory’s, Heckingham, dates from the 12th Century but has been redundant since the 1990’s. It sits on top of a small rise in the landscape on the edge of the Norfolk Marshes. Any context of a community has now dissipated leaving it as a symbol of something past, a motif of Englishness that seems redundant. Its vestry, however, still retains many of its items and objects that were used in the liturgy and daily running of the church; mundane, everyday objects donated from homes across the parish. Now surplus and showing signs of neglect, I photographed each object from the vestry using an 8 x 10 plate camera. Placed into a niche set into the church wall, each object assumes the attributes of an installation. Made at the same time of day over a three-year period, and throughout each season, the changing light from the leaded and stained-glass windows altered the hues of each picture as it blended with the niche’s light- yellow paintwork. With a disquieting sentimentality, these ‘ornaments’ which have outlived their purpose, make visible a diminishing connection between modern culture and its medieval past; a contemporary memento mori to the last vestiges of a world in suspension, on the cusp of disappearing from view.