Boxes as Art - John Dilnot

Bad Apples - John Dilnot

John Dilnot is an artist that works with books and book art. However Dilnot has looked at other ways of creating art through the idea of boxes. 
Each box that Dilnot creates has a feeling of a story or an event such as migration of birds, or as the image on the left 'Bad Apples' looks at the memory of Dilnot when he was a child picking the good apples from the bad apples. In fairness this is a memory that many of us can share, the feeling of walking through the grass, barefoot and treading on a bad apple. 
However the way that Dilnot has chosen to arrange the apples on shelf's labelled with their names give the impression that he is looking a decay and how that nothing is immortal. 
What is interesting about the work is that it looks at all the different ways that different apples rot and blemish over the time that they have sat on the grass. Each apple has its own marking that in some ways defines it from all the others. 
The Pocket Atlas - Heading South looks at the migration of birds in the winter and how the fragile birds fly miles across the world every year. The birds hover over the map in a cluster, keeping close to make the journey together, this work reminds us of the immense journey that theirs creatures have to make in order to survive.