The thread of all sorrows
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Authors
Miller, Gwenneth
Issue Date
2020
Type
Image
Multimedia
Multimedia
Language
en
Keywords
Trauma, art
Alternative Title
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
Description
For more information see the link to the artist's web page at the top of the page.
Citation
Gwenneth Miller, The Thread of all sorrows (2020). Ultrachrome inks on acid-free cotton paper, edition of 10. 50 x 35cm