It is a commonality, losing someone, but we all experience that loss uniquely.
Sometimes that experience is celebratory, joy for a full life. Sometimes it is not. Sometimes it is quiet and peaceful. Sometimes it is not. Whatever the circumstances we often want to mark the occasion.
In this project, You’re Still Here, Rebecca Godderis chose to do so through an essay and a textile piece. The making of both helped the artist to come to terms with the loss of their best friend, a loss that society seemed unable to help with.
In this especially poignant memorial the lines of text in the fabric artwork are from the poem that the artist read out aloud six years previously at the funeral. Art truly does help in times of grief and emotion.
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