Two Thousand, The Chapel, Mountbatten Hospice, Isle of Wight

 

‘Two Thousand’ is a hanging installation consisting of 2,000 pierced and hand-rolled porcelain discs.

Isle of Wight potter, Sue Paraskeva, spent four months crafting these individual porcelain discs, before they were installed in The Chapel in April 2024.

Each disc serves as a memorial, referencing the average annual death rates on the Isle of Wight.

It is not only the number of discs that is symbolic, but also the weight. Each unfired clay disc weighs approximately 21 grams.

Some believe that 21 grams is the ‘weight of the soul’.

A labour of love and remembrance

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