A Beautiful Death

Titled "A Beautiful Death", this image depicts an artwork that I created for my Higher School Certificate in Visual Arts. Despite the inevitability of death, I wanted to evoke the illustration of beauty within this notion. Often rooted in negativity, cancer is a disease that is so closely linked with emotions of pain and despair. Rarely do you associate it with any form of joy or beauty. The irony of this paradox therefore became the core of my work alongside Chris O'Brien who committed his life to the treatment of cancer. Ironically, O'Brien fell victim to this disease however, even to his death he radiated with a joyous disposition and hence, a 'beautiful' death. Joy in death and beauty in disease, the positivity of these paradox's results in the illumination of the fact that there is always hope, even within death.