Reverie
gallery
Gumoil Print on Arches Platine
116"x70"
2024-25
The performance of grief is far less often depicted in photographs than that of joy and celebration. This is why photos taken at my father’s funeral, a multiday traditional Buddhist/Taoist ceremony, is so peculiar. I never liked that I have these photos and wonder why they were taken or by whom. I remember my grief and pain in those moments. I knelt for hours. I remember the rough linen garb against my skin and the heat from the ceremonial bonfire illuminating the mourners in the photo. My mother, poised, hands clasped in prayer, gazing deeply and beyond the mortal plane, a model of a grieving widow frozen in frame.
Installation photos from Sacred Reverie at Kenilwoth Square East Gallery, April 2025Photo by Stephen Pritchard