REVERIE

2020-2024

Walking through grief is an intensely personal journey. My experience felt like falling into a dark hole, alone, with ice covering over the cavity as if to say it never happened. But it did, and during the pandemic the ice began to melt.

Reverie is a visual meditation on healing from the ambiguous loss of child before I could become a mother. Beneath the canopy of cottonwoods and willows along the Coal Creek in Lafayette, CO, I imagined a secret landscape that transformed my hidden shame into acceptance and grace. Revisiting the watery grove almost daily, it became the place where I could "hold space" for processing the grief I could not speak of. The gentle current calmed my mind and spirit, while the mother trees stood as symbols of strength and resilience, empowering me to tell my story.