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ELLIE RUSH |
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My work began as a way to help me represent my feelings about death and the loss of family and friends. My dad died when I was very young and more recently both my cousin and grandma. Through my work I have been able to confront my feelings and present them to a wider audience, by looking at death objectively through other peoples approach to their own grief. I began by visiting traditional graveyards to see how people use the graves to help them mourn, the placing of flowers, trinkets and mementoes. It also gave me a chance to appreciate the use of religious imagery and statues; religion gives some people a way to cope with their loss. I personally believe that the grave only holds our remains and find it unnecessary to visit there to remember and mourn. By visiting woodland burial sites, which are an increasing sight around the country, I have come into contact with many people who are working to transform societies approach to death. Through studying other peoples approaches it has broadened my own beliefs. Therefore my work has transformed, it has become necessary to memorialise the people I have lost. I want my work to give people a chance to consider their own beliefs but most importantly be a therapeutic tool for my own grief. A lasting memory of the dead, a form of remembrance. |
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Carly Beard |
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