Wooden bench overlooking estuary with power station in far distance and dramatic sky.
Wooden bench with bunches of flowers on and memorial plaque.
Wooden bench with three memorial plaques on.
Old graves, overgrown and untended.
Wooden bench overlooking parade of shops.
Wooden bench ovelooking ambulance station car park. Row of ambulances and office buildings in background.
Old grave untended and overgrown.
Wooden bench in road overlooking entrance to fulham football club with craven cottage in background.
Wooden bench on edge of roundabout with red bus passing and row of shops in background.
Wooden bench in car park overlooking ikea store.
Wooden bench in on grass in back garden overlooking rear of house.
Old grave untended and overgrown.
Wooden bench in primary school playground with school buildings in background.
Old graves with broken headstones, untended and overgrown.
Old grave with broken headstone cross, untended and overgrown.

Acts of Remembrance

"Man is born a slave and lies down in the grave a slave, and death is unlikely to tell him why he walked through the wondrous valley of tears, suffered, sobbed, endured, vanished".

Konstantin Batiushkov 1821-1824

Try as we may, we die.

Why do we feel the need to mark this passage by monuments, graves or benches.

To make our presence known, to remind others of our being? These very acts of remembrance themselves then fade or are forgotten.

The untended grave, the broken headstone, the bench with a plaque reminding passers by that this was Bill’s favorite view.

Take a bench to the places that have meant something to your life and put it down so others may sit and stare.