Erik Cocks
There is Tomorrow
Embrace Your Decisions
Own Your Destiny
The New Series –
Ghosts of Decisions Past
This series explores the world of what could have been as we explore our own path in life.
Do you ever wonder “what if”, you had stayed, gone, taken, given up, or tried that one thing in your life – no matter how small – that may have changed course. And how easily we may walk past the signposts in our lives pointing us to a better place?
This series comes from the moments in my own life when I was eaten by pride and hatred – cursing or celebrating the decisions in my life that put me where i am today.
I explore how my perverse understanding of the world led to my fleeting victories and crushing doubts about the paths I have pursued.
I look back with curiosity and pain, only to see darkness.
I ponder the shame of my imperfection with each step forward.
When was the last moment I remembered clearly before the darkness called?
I create these images with light and shadows, knowing full well that these shadows may ultimately find me and call with the thunder of the sea.
Death appears kind as I watch another beach sunset in my life, grasping at what could have been.
As the sun rises on another day, I take one step at a time to walk past the signposts of decisions in my life – towards the light that warms my path forward to joy.
Just as the possibility that ghosts are those who have not moved on from this world to the next, the decisions we have not let go of may stay with us until we purge our romanticism of what could have been and walk forward in life – unburdened.