Inside The Dead Box is an exhibition of photographs of a small theatre-like space designed and constructed to house a world of slowly decaying and decomposing organic matter, with precious inorganic objects nestled in amongst the detritus. Skeletons, skulls, decomposing fruit, corpses, precious objects, dried flowers, living insects and microorganisms populate the Dead Box. 

This work is fundamentally informed by the Vanitas genre of still life painting, prominent in the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries, which includes various symbolic objects, designed to remind the viewer of their mortality by emphasizing the certainty of death and the transience of life and of the folly of worldly wealth. In this project the Dead Box has become the holder of the ‘still life’ with the decaying environment as the backdrop.