"Beggar Girl", 2001
pen & ink, collage, watercolor on handmade paper, 32"x24"

Gavin’s watercolour interpretation of a Daguerreotype of this Paris character. Gavin firmly believed that the art of the Daguerreotype was loaned to the real world for only a brief moment – a moment which was not measured in seconds, hours or even years. The timeless quality of this captured moment embraced the notion that nothing ever dies, but just projects itself into the now of contemporary, subconscious thought, and, there-fore lives on. Daguerreotypes preserve the past forever.