Artist and paramedic, David Marron, uses the Asphodel plant to explore what it means to understand life and death for COVID victims.

Asphodels is an attempt to garner some understanding of life and death with COVID. It’s comprised of painting, drawing, a panel from a glass installation, and a film which combines related imagery with a poetic narrative.

Artist and paramedic, David Marron, uses the Asphodel plant to represent a COVID victim. The Asphodel meadows being a contradictorily depicted part of the Greek Underworld. Imagining a multitude of rooted Asphodels as the lost COVID faces within government statistics and the art a flawed effort to direct back to the shaken people. Effort is all we have.

The art strives to react against the brief time a paramedic spends with a patient and the sheer volume of people affected by the virus. It gives an imaginary face to the wave of patients crashing into hospital and those that break outside of it. In capturing these individual, fictional identities and isolating them upon canvas and paper there’s a necessity to comprehend the almost meaningless number of casualties from this pandemic. To give an identity back to a number lost amongst others.

The format of this exhibition presents the artwork first followed by the film, it's narrative and then an artist discussion, slideshow.