The titles of these three watercolour drawings are quoted lines from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The central motif of the poem, the senseless killing of an Albatross, has its contemporary equivalent in the senseless killing of the seabird by ingesting discarded plastic items.

The drawings were made as a forensic examination of the unnatural combination of three elements - bones, feathers and plastic.

		"and I had done an hellish thing"
		"it ate the food it ne'er had eat"
		"twas right, said they, such birds to slay"