The director/ curator of Kandos Projects, Anne Finnegan wrote of this installation that
‘This proved to be one of our more unpopular but highly successful shows in terms of the strong negative reactions the work produced. The comments of passers by were regularly peppered with expressions like “creeps me out” as people responded on a visceral level to what was intuitively a set of shrouds. The hand-beaten silk tapa had an uneven ragged and even spidery texture, especially around the edges. This was suggestive of age, of even a world weariness, a fraying, which, when coupled with the weblike association, called to mind the creepy crawlies which invade places of abandon and the tomb.

Given the shape of the windows, the hanging of the silk tapa cloths effectively created a set of draped coffins. Also you couldn’t see through the tapa cloth, except at the bottom, and only the bare, wooden boards of floor were visible. This created a spooky effect of dread, of an absent presence behind the shrouds, shockingly in the bright light of day. Funereal trappings were thus, by suggestion, displaced from more venerable or hallowed settings like the cemetery or the funeral service, creating a psychic disjuncture, a sense that things were not where they should be, a suggestion of death ostensibly in broad daylight, in the middle of a shopping precinct between the bakers and the newsagents, even though nothing specific was there to be seen.’

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