This installation responds to the glamorized and sensationalized portrayal of death in the mass media, for the purpose of entertainment. Popular crime shows have dramatized death and made grief and tragedy “invisible” to television viewers. The installation is designed to play with the paradox between the gruesomeness of death and the collective fascination in western culture on this morbid subject of death and dying.
 

The overall installation consists of three body forms covered with hand-made fabric flowers and a chalk outlined crime scene marked out with flowers. Each body represents a cliché cause of death commonly seen in prime time crime dramas: a strangulation, a blunt force trauma to the head, and a gun shot wound to the chest. Along with the crime scene with flower contour, the entire installation narrates the numbing effect resulting from passive consumption of excessive televised death. Through the fibre medium, the experience is realized in the physical space.