My source of inspiration for my work came from the murder of my uncle, Martin, in 2011. I was the last person to see him alive and because of this, was very involved in the court case for his death. Since then, I have always felt a very strange connection to him that I never fully understood. Being the last person to have seen him alive has impacted me in ways I can’t explain. After my uncle’s death, I began to have indescribable, graphic and terrifying nightmares about his death and the court case. I also began to unconsciously create vivid, photographic-like images in my head of Martin working, in my mind these images have extreme clarity and almost feel real. He is never doing anything extraordinary in these images, but instead, performing very mundane, day-to-day tasks that we all eventually take for granted. Though I have never understood why these images came to me, my main focus in my work is to create these mental images I have always had and make them tangible and real. I hope to celebrate these mundane activities I have pictured Martin doing and to convey the beauty in them. By doing this, I hope to emphasise how important it is that we do not take the small, overlooked aspects of life for granted.