Why we are doing this
This project is about sharing. Richard is living through something many people haven’t experienced—and we wanted to open a space where others could begin to understand it, not through facts or explanations, but through art. By showing the work in Richard’s flat, we invite friends and family into a more personal, human way of engaging with illness, time, and uncertainty. It’s a different way to experience art—close-up, informal, and in conversation with the people who made it. And that changes everything. People look more slowly, ask different questions, and open up in ways they might not in a gallery.

What the work is about
Richard’s work is rooted in the deeply personal. His drawings and sculptures translate experiences of cancer—waiting, hoping, enduring—into colour, form, and fragile structures. He works with the emotions and physical realities of his illness, sharing what it feels like to live with uncertainty.

My work responds by stepping back to a wider lens. I take the same big themes—time, uncertainty, impermanence—and explore them through natural processes and universal forces: the cycles of the moon, the physics of energy, the mystery of how life arises from matter. These abstract works don’t try to explain, but to hold space for reflection. They offer perspective—reminding us that while each life is fragile, we’re all part of something vast and interconnected.

Together, our work invites reflection on life and death, not as problems to solve, but as mysteries to witness—with attention, curiosity, and care.