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.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Olli Shearman - Aged 4
Text on Hankie: The boy who didn't know not to go in freezers.
The person who was very wrinkly and old died.
Extra: When I was creating my hankie, my four year old son became intrigued with what I was doing, he saw that I had another hankie and wanted to make one too. I explained to him that the hankie was about dying and death and this was his interpretation. In one of the pictures you can see the spirit of the dead person above the body.
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