Mourning
            <i>The Chrysalids</i>
            : Currere, affect, and letting go

Downey, Adrian M.

doi:10.1080/15505170.2022.2098207

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“…Our relationship has taken on a new form just as I have taken on a new form reconnecting with myself as artist (Figure 13). As Downey (2022) argues,mourning is a sort of accounting of the past toward a reconstruction of what is possible in the future—a redefinition of both personal and social meaning of what has been lost, its new absence, and its lingering presence in our lives. (para.…”

Section: F/28 Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Gift of Loss: A Rhizomatic Connection Journey

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2023

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In this piece, I explore how embodied reflexivity stop moments, juxtaposed with the photographic f-stop, inform the various stages of my creative process. Through deconstruction, fragmentation, and reconstruction of my images, I work to navigate and embrace loss to reconnect with myself as artist/daughter. Through the lens of my father’s camera, I engage in a form of relational consciousness: hearing his voice guide my composition and technical approach to my images and then freeing my consciousness to create on a more visceral level using the interdisciplinary approaches that are the foundation of my art making. I detail how my process became a form of conversation through the lens as well as a rhizomatic healing journey. Throughout, I question how dominant society regulates and controls how and what we grieve, who is grieved, and I advance the idea that grief and loss should be embraced as a gift.

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Section: F/28 Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%