Wittgenstein Dialogue
plaster, paper and ink
15 x 13 x 20 cm
1999

Humument Skull
paper collage on plaster
15 x 13 x 20 cm
1996

Dreams
paper collage on plaster
15 x 13 x 20 cm
1997

The Client
paper collage on plaster
15 x 13 x 20 cm
1997

Trophy Skull
bronze
15 x 13 x 20 cm
1996

No object has had a longer history in the art of the world than the human skull. The treated or decorated skull appears in the art of Oceania and Africa and most gloriously in the sky-coloured turquoise-covered crania of Pre-Columbian America.

It is now quite difficult to acquire a skull other than one's own. The particular example on which these works are based was bought from an ethnographic dealer and is a fetish skull from the Southern Seas.

All were adaptations of a cast of this, worked on and re-cast in bronze or glass (via wax) or directly 'treated' in collage or other techniques of application. Collage elements include the ever-serviceable repertoire of A Human Document, The Boys Own Paper, colour supplements of newspapers or, more recently, prostitutes' advertising cards.

Drawing to a Conclusion (1997),  p. 6.