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When I had this idea, all I had in mind was something I read about the modern social-geographical aspect of grief. It sounds like "what the hell is that?!". Well, I didn't know such thing existed either, but - and it made total sense after I read - there are these classifications of modern and post-modern grief and how now-a-days people more so than the early years, relocate to different geographical locations making the grief process totally change. You see, in a modern society when you grow to an age where you can survive for yourself you normally move out of your parents house, right? The usual time to do so is for university and it's very common for the child to choose to study elsewhere than its birth place.
With all that in mind -let's just hypothetically speak - that teenager's nan passes away. Now, that person is surrounded by uni peers, professors, and other people which don't know his nan. He now has to grief around people that think "oh it all happens for a reason" "she's in a much better place now" "she wouldn't want you to be upset" and all them cliche phrases we know of. Professors which are more worried about "he/she's been missing a lot of classes, he sure has a lot to catch up, will he/she be able to finish the year with a good grade?". And that's how this whole modern grief goes on. Same goes to somebody older that works away from home... blah blah blah. So with all of that in mind, I decided to sketch a genealogical tree. I thought about linking people up and making it more obvious but you know me, I like abstract so I left a bit to your own imagination. The different blocks of colour - different people; The blue lines - blue is associated with grief and more commonly with sadness so inevitably I'd use it. It means all the people and things that we have lost along the way; The last bottom-right-hand-side colour block without a blue stain - when I decided to paint that one, I had in mind that it would be the life of someone yet to feel loss. But who hasn't felt loss unless you're a just born child? But even so, you've already experienced losing the comfort of the womb and it's quite involuntary, it happens when it happens and I doubt that the baby knows when it's going to happen! I guess loss is just a synonym for being human.
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