The fougou or celtic burial chambers encouraged me to make a similar holding space in response to my mother's dying.
I thought of willow as a pliable base and carefully made detailed frameworks, held together with string and tape. Their look was of neither boat nor tomb but sitting somewhere in between.
The frame was partially covered in tissue paper, drawn and printed using my Mums coffin top flowers again. The paper pieces have the quality of leaves or scales. The frame, low on the ground, had an entrance that people often ask to lie inside.