COMFORT FOOD
Clay, Resin
Comfort Food explores ideas of comfort, loss and community via common grief platitudes served up with many of the most typical condolence dishes they are often accompanied by.
The series explores the often paradoxical relationships between these acts of community care and the often unsolicited and trite messages about how the bereaved should be handling their loss that come along with them. This work aims to showcase the breadth of platitudes we give those who are grieving, and turn a critical eye to why even the most well-meaning of us culturally rely on platitudes, and what their enduring use means to us.
Comfort Food explores ideas of comfort, loss and community via common grief platitudes served up with many of the most typical condolence dishes they are often accompanied by.
The series explores the often paradoxical relationships between these acts of community care and the often unsolicited and trite messages about how the bereaved should be handling their loss that come along with them. This work aims to showcase the breadth of platitudes we give those who are grieving, and turn a critical eye to why even the most well-meaning of us culturally rely on platitudes, and what their enduring use means to us.