A Little Death

TaylorJohnson updates traditional still life imagery What seems at first to be a quiet arrangement of a dead hare and peach on a table starts to decompose before our eyes Rather than attempting to capture a moment in time the viewer is put face to face with a speeded up decomposition of the subject matter TaylorWood brings home the transience of biological life and the viewers mortality This work explores the issue of temporality an idea which permeates the artists oeuvre where a course of action can change radically even within the space of a few seconds