Grief (print edition)
print edition
4 x 5, softcover, 22 pages
Sometimes we experience a grief so deep that there are no words to describe it. The idea for this piece came when the only thing that seemed to soothe the grief were long walks at night, looking at the stars. The nighttime dark was so much softer and gentler than the dark of grief.
So, the grief journey in this book begins with a single tear. More tears fall, pool, and eventually fill the frame. A (purposefully uncomfortable) too-long period of dark follows. But, just when the dark becomes too overwhelming, a single star appears that shifts the viewer's perception from an ocean-of-tears dark to a gentler dark of night-sky. Slowly, stars return. Clouds come, but dissipate. A long-awaited dawn finally brings the promise of light and hope.
The print version of Grief is affordably priced for gifting to loved ones, for use in hospice, in grief counseling, for the loss of a pet, and perhaps with victims of assault or trauma. Told exclusively through pictures, it can be understood by children and by non-English speakers.
ISBN 978-0-9992377-2-4
4 x 5, softcover, 22 pages
Sometimes we experience a grief so deep that there are no words to describe it. The idea for this piece came when the only thing that seemed to soothe the grief were long walks at night, looking at the stars. The nighttime dark was so much softer and gentler than the dark of grief.
So, the grief journey in this book begins with a single tear. More tears fall, pool, and eventually fill the frame. A (purposefully uncomfortable) too-long period of dark follows. But, just when the dark becomes too overwhelming, a single star appears that shifts the viewer's perception from an ocean-of-tears dark to a gentler dark of night-sky. Slowly, stars return. Clouds come, but dissipate. A long-awaited dawn finally brings the promise of light and hope.
The print version of Grief is affordably priced for gifting to loved ones, for use in hospice, in grief counseling, for the loss of a pet, and perhaps with victims of assault or trauma. Told exclusively through pictures, it can be understood by children and by non-English speakers.
ISBN 978-0-9992377-2-4