This project was borne out of the recent sudden death of my father, a handkerchief, some emotive words written by a sibling on his death and the traumatic aftermath of a death processed according to particular societal and cultural mores. Interested artists and Individuals are invited to create an artwork on a handkerchief (any handkerchief not necessarily a man's) based around death/grief/bereavement and return it to me by mid July 2011 for inclusion in a show in Melbourne in August, 2011
Please note that due to the subject matter of this project (death/grief) some of the images on this blog might be disturbing.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Sasi Victoire Artwork
My mother did not carry a hankie.
She wiped herself at the end of her saree palav.
On boxing day 2003, I received a call that she had passed away.
She was seventy-five years old. She had rung the day before for xmas and was waiting for my eldest daughter to ring her. It sounded urgent!
When I arrived back home, she had already been cremated. I never saw her.
No one would say how she died.
I figured the rest out…………
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