This 8x10 paper negative photograph was taken on Wingaersheek Beach near our family home in Gloucester, Massachusetts. This image is part of a series about the grief after the loss of one of my brothers, Conor, to the opioid epidemic. I made this work soon after his passing during visits home as a form of art therapy; it was a visual way for me to find balance in the tumultuous grief and turmoil of losing him. The photographs are vessels to me, a way to hold and make space for those feelings of grief.. holding on as a way of honoring.
