The thread of all sorrows

Miller, Gwenneth

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dc.contributor.author	Miller, Gwenneth
dc.date.accessioned	2021-08-26T11:13:38Z
dc.date.available	2021-08-26T11:13:38Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.identifier.citation	Gwenneth Miller, The Thread of all sorrows (2020). Ultrachrome inks on acid-free cotton paper, edition of 10. 50 x 35cm	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.gwennethmiller.com/enfolding
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27852
dc.description	For more information see the link to the artist's web page at the top of the page.	en
dc.description.abstract	“The thread of all sorrows” was compiled from digitally cropped details from various Renaissance paintings portraying lamentation. The concepts of this work and the ink drawing "Sorrow" recognise that the experience of bereavement is universal and have been an expression through history. The fragments of paintings provide an intertextual conversation with art as a means to deal with pain, cross-referencing interpretation of cultural representations of suffering. In trauma therapy, one is reminded that what you go through has been experienced by many others and this awareness assists to some extent to make a situation bearable. The title and the work were also inspired by the poet Naomi Shihab Nye, who wrote “You must wake up with sorrow. / You must speak to it till your voice / catches the thread of all sorrows/ and you see the size of the cloth. / Then it is only kindness that makes sense / anymore.” Ultrachrome inks on acid-free cotton paper, edition of 10 Format: 50 cm x 35cm	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Trauma, art	en
dc.title	The thread of all sorrows	en
dc.type	Image	en
dc.type	Multimedia	en
dc.description.department	Art and Music	en