Portraiture & storytelling project creativity after loss ❤️🩹 Grief + creativity story? 📩 By Jo Ritchie & @lauramcwrites (we’re better on insta 📸)
Joined November 2020
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Creative mistakes are simply part of the process of getting where you want to be.
Some people might call it growth mindset. Barry says it’s just his engineer brain 🤷🏼♀️
Read Barry’s inspiring story of #grief + #creativity here:
projectinggrief.com/barry
“Slowly, I started unlearning all of this stuff about perfectionism and trying to be good. The fear of not being good enough - whatever ‘good enough’ is - had stopped me for so long.
projectinggrief.com/sarah-b
#grief
Chuffed to get a shout-out in @guardian in this thoughtful piece about #CelebrationDay (thank you @belgianwaffling!)
We’re constantly inspired by the work our sitters create in memory of loved ones, including Marianne and Suchandrika mentioned here.
Sarah is a coach and facilitator in higher education, maternal support advocate, and birth doula.
Her mum died in 2015.
“I had the brightest light in him and the darkest dark in losing mum. Reconciling those two things was impossible.”
projectinggrief.com/sarah-b
#grief
🌫️ The last image from our #PicturingGrief series with @GriefYork 🌫️
“It’s a bit of a blur. I felt like a ghost. I was in the world doing things but I wasn’t fully present.”
(1/2)
“My previous world disappeared because the person I did everything (and nothing) with was no longer there.”
Our penultimate image and quote from our series Picturing Grief this week: ✨ on curtains
Thanks for all the likes, shares & lovely comments ❤️🩹
projectinggrief.com/picturin…
“It is almost like looking through gauze…colours are less bright, the scent of flowers is not as strong.”
Flowers come up quite a lot in grief imagery, but this quote felt too beautiful not to illustrate.
More on our collab @hriefyork collab: projectinggrief.com/picturin…
“Your heart literally does ache. I didn’t know that.”
As well as sharing online, images from our Picturing Grief collaboration with @GriefYork have been turned into postcards and coasters and left where people might stumble across them ❤️🩹
projectinggrief.com/picturin…
Grief imagery can be clichéd. Lilies. Hands. Someone with their head in their hands.
With Picturing Grief - a collab with @GriefYork - we took real people’s words and created some intriguing images.
The kind of thing that makes you think, “What’s this?”
projectinggrief.com/picturin…
You can see all of the images and read more about the project and survey on our website.
We would love to hear how any of the images or words made you feel.
Visit the anonymous feedback page….
…or send us your thoughts via DM 📩 (2/2)
“I felt remote; the world felt remote and artificial; I felt like an observer of a ‘story’ in which I was oddly the protagonist.”
Another image from our series in collaboration with @GriefYork to raise awareness of their Grief Survey.
projectinggrief.com/picturin… (1/2)
“I would look down at my hands and not recognise them” 🤲🏽
The @GriefYork Grief Survey is a substantial & hugely helpful resource and more people should be able to benefit from it ❤️🩹
We’re posting images daily during #dyingmattersawarenessweek
projectinggrief.com/picturin…
All of the images you’ll see over the next week were shot specifically for this project, and were inspired by quotes taken directly from the Grief Survey.
Find out more and feedback:
projectinggrief.com/picturin…
griefyork.com/survey
✨Announcing Picturing Grief: a collaborative project with @GriefYork ✨
We’ve been commissioned by the university’s Philosophy Department to produce a series of images to raise awareness of the Grief Survey: a rich searchable database of first-person testimonies of grief. (1/2)
Gorgeous day of creative workshopping at @FangfossPottery
A chance to have a go on the wheel, make a memory tile and a little robin 🪶
Part of our collaboration with Barmby Moor Group of Churches thanks to a Do It For East Yorkshire community grant.
Thank you, Lyn & Gerry ❤️