Driftwood Toybox

Today I am in treatment at the Balfour hospital (7 more treatments to go before re-assessment) so here is a brighter shot from yesterday when we went to St Margaret's Hope village to see an exhibition:
"A View from Orkney: Beautiful Lies and Ugly Truths" by Robinson RR in the Loft Gallery at the moment.

Below the quote are the notes by the artist who created this work called Driftwood Toybox following a particular event in 2015 reported in The Guardian thus:

"The full horror of the human tragedy unfolding on the shores of Europe was brought home on Wednesday as images of the lifeless body of a young boy encapsulated the extraordinary risks refugees are taking to reach the west.  The picture depicted the dark haired toddler, wearing a bright red T-shirt and shorts, washed up on a beach, lying face down in the surf not far from Turkey's fashionable resort of Bodrum."
Helena Smith (Guardian Newspaper, 2nd September 2015)

" Driftwood Toybox is a response to the heartbreaking photograph of this poor child lying dead on the beach.
I imagined a toybox dashed to pieces by the tides and rocks of a foreign coast and its precious contents spilled, spoiled and scattered along the shore.  Its cargo of memories, careless laughter, joyous imaginings and dreams of fantastic voyages; puzzles, toys and games and gifts from loved ones, once stowed safely away, now broken, shattered, shivered and pitched up by a cold, cruel sea."   Robinson RR