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, May 27, 2010
Kate Stead - Where's Mum
Remembering how I was sent off to school with a hanky pinned to my uniform every day makes me very sad for that little girl who felt like her world had come to an end when she came home from school to find her mother being taken off to hospital in a coma. Mum pulled through, but she was away long enough to make me feel like my childhood had come to an end. Pinning my own hanky to my uniform in the mornings was an awful reminder of her absence.
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