Taming Grief: The Banana Trees Stand Vigil in Your Resting Place
This is a body of work pulling from writings I’ve made on my time caregiving and experiencing loss after my mother’s passing. In these writings, I used the garden as an allegory for these experiences as I tackled the memories of this time through writing, collage video and painting as a means to congeal its memory. The work is developed from footage and photo documentation I’ve collected throughout the seasons at Montreal’s botanical gardens, parts of Laval and Honduras.
I visually portray my mental space as a garden in transition-- in a condition of disrepair, dulled or frosted, followed by one that is gradually gaining liveliness, saturation and flourishing. The garden in this psychological space acts as a place where my mother and I meet, revisiting memory and rebuilding/repurposing what was lost.
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