The Revenants

This series of photographs was made on daily visits to an ornamental pool on the university campus in Southampton (Hampshire, England) where I work, over the course of a year. More specifically, the series records some of the objects that found their way into the pool, whether as simple wind-blown litter, or as semi-conscious offerings to tutelary spirits. A revenant is defined as "one who has returned (from death, exile, etc.), a ghost". As well as the likes of Hamlet's father, the word describes these spectral bits and pieces which reappear, in different guises, day after day in the pool.