Grief: Questioning 1 — a t h e n a

Grief: Questioning
GRIEF STUDY 1
MY MULTIPLANE

Mixed Media on Polaroid
2024

Depicting the idea of self-grief and loss of identity through the process of grieving, Grief: Questioning 1 has three main themes: queer identity exploration, self consciousness, and emotional suppression. These themes are communicated through faces hidden with strong splashes of color to contradict a muted background, along with pasted phrases such as “queer” and “What is said about you?”

Created while I was an undergraduate student, Grief: Questioning 1 personifies a naive fear of self-growth and exploration that I harbored while closeted in my early 20s/ Undergraduate career at Purdue University.