Enduring LossThis week’s Soulful Expressions is contributed by artist Diane Teske. If you would like to contribute or recommend art about death and dying, please contact dana@sevenponds.com.
FLOWERS FADE
from the artist:
“I was led by my intuition to do a performance piece in memorium of a friend who was passing away of cancer… Later, a girl that dated [my friend] told me that when they went on their first date, they rode by a field of dandelions. He immediately threw his bike down and kicked up every seed in the entire field. Another friend told me that [he] consistently drank dandelion tea. These were strange and serendipitous coincidences that I was unaware of. Intending to blow the seeds away, I held up the flower to the wind. There was a one seed left, that held on until the wind finally picked up and blew the seed away.”
AFTER THE SUICIDES
from the artist:
“Images from paintings, scans, and design studies dealing with ideas of preservation and decay, grief and loss, ideas of the afterlife, and the fragility of this present life.”
Failed Attempts to Mend the Rift, 2011
Broken from my personal grief journal, research and process book, 2011
The Delicacy of Life, from my personal grief journal, research and process book, 2011
Golden Hope, 1 of 6 in Musings on the Afterlife series, 2011
Rutgers Health Study May Improve End-of-Life Care
Mary Oliver’s “Heavy” Speaks to the Weight of Grief
Did Our Ancestors Leave Behind a Map of the Afterlife?
We were in Texas yesterday celebrating the passing of my sister Jude. The desert was an amazing landscape as we sang, held hands in a circle and each of us scattered some of her ashes. I returned home to view this wonderful art that reminds me of our day and my sister’s goodbye. There may be cracks in the sand but love in our hearts.
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I love your art Diana. Thanks for submitting it to us. Such lovely metaphors, variety of medium and peaceful to look at!
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