‘Meditations on red’ explores the resonance of colour, our perceptions of and the physical reaction our bodies have to colour. The body of work grew as a personal relationship and conversation with the colour red in all its intensity and invigoration and as a reminder of our mortality. The work grew to include an investigation into the interpretations of the colour throughout human history, including representations of colour from the Chakra system that originated in India from the earliest Sanskrit literary records, the Vedas. The work explores notions of ceremony and rites of passage, seeking particular comfort in the cyclical nature of each human beings life. More specifically exploring rights of passage into womanhood and acknowledging and finding comfort in the long line of women that come before us, and that will come after us, who will undertake this transformation. The common themes of ceremony, womanhood, birth - death cycles, are explored in this body of work through physical mark making and interactions with red pigments, paints and baring witness to the decay of many animals desperately trying to survive in the dry and sometimes harsh environment of the desert.