Uncle Colin by Tracey Emin

This piece by Tracey Emin is low-key and more subtle than her more well known works, such as My Bed. I learnt about this touching tribute to her dead uncle by reading Art & Death by Chris Townsend. She never knew her Uncle as he was killed in a car accident before she was born. Saying this, she still felt the need to document the tragedy, as it would be quickly forgotten once immediate family died, therefore immortilzing him through her artistic status. A seagull features in one of the frames; returning to the idea of a spirit passing from this world to the next.