Artist Statement
Alpha & Omega features images drawn from a collection of almost three hundred postmortem portraits, mainly of children, that are part of the Hornan Post Mortem Portrait Archive which once resided at The Lyric Cranium. This archive, along with the Brunion Collection of Extremely Interesting Things, was part of a now defunct Wunderkammer of objects and artifacts on display (by appointment only) in a small town in Western Newfoundland until 2016. The included essay is from an illustrated public lecture given at a Death Symposium at the Grenfell Campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland in September 2011 by the author.
2013 (POD Blurb 2nd edition 2023. ISBN 978-1-77-711112-0)
20.2 cm × 24.2 cm × 0.4 cm