TRANSITUS

Dimensions: 12.9 x 12.9 x 6.5 cm

Date assembled & painted: 2025

Details: A severed face from a bartmann jug dated c. 1550 stares outwards - its brow marked with a cross. Once a vessel of ale and domestic ritual, the jug now speaks of rupture, branding, and symbolic authority.

Behind it sits a fragment of 16th century script murmuring through time echoing the language of judgement and record. The frame made from oak salvaged in the late 1500s by judge Sir Francis Gawdy from a barn in Runcton, Holme, Norfolk adds a layer of judicial presence. It is both a container and tribunal, holding the fragment like a relic in trial. What’s passed before his eyes is not just history - it is rupture, ritual, and reckoning. This is not a portrait it is a relic of witness.