maeror
A WORK IN PROCESS (Process postponed due to COVID 19)
Set in an intimate space, maeror, is an evening-length insight to the human mind, following the loss of a loved one. The Latin word for 'grief', maeror, illustrates how a person in mourning might exploit their relationships, as a means to rediscover a sense of normalcy —consciously or otherwise. Whether through varying displays of affection, dependency, isolation, indignation, avoidance, sexuality, and/or manipulation... the human psyche will find a way to grapple with its wounds.
What might a grieving person look like, and do they all look the same? How and when do we learn to cope with the passing of those we hold closest? And when, if ever, have we been mentored as to how to support those grieving around us?
There is no solution to the nature of mortality; yet, it seems human kind has missed an opportunity to examine the universal truth of losing people, and the profound ripple of realities that are inevitably born in its wake.
Photography by Emily Olson
“We bleed on the people who didn’t
cut us.”
Photography by Emily Olson