Farewell Angelina (2018)
Farewell Angelina is a handmade artist's bookwork developed in response to the violent loss of the artist's sister in 2015. Following a journey of grief explored poetically and with urgency this bookmaking process reveals an autobiographical inquiry into the power of photographic art practice to respond to trauma, loss and grief and to help shape meaning in the aftermath. The work considers the capacity of artistic mediums, such as photography, to house memory and give form to otherwise inchoate and chaotic emotions and doing so, help us to shape the meaning we make of our lives and our worlds after profound loss. This inquiry, which responds directly to personal history, also reflects on art’s ability to create sites for grief and mourning.
