Sweet Darkness

Sweet Darkness is a meditation on the complex nature of death: the joy and the sadness, the beauty and the decay, and the role of death in our daily lives. As winter comes to a close, we’re used to making way for new growth in our gardens—we do our spring cleaning, we clear our garden beds and plant new seeds. It can be tempting to imagine we only have one death in this life, when actually we have so many. Our cells turning over, ourselves turning over, relationships coming to an end, committing to letting go of old patterns so new habits and perspectives can grow in. 

Sweet Darkness as a body of work represents the ongoing process of mining our shadows for life. It represents time spent reflecting on what can be tended to, not as a means of creating new, but in removing what is old and no longer serving us, itself an act in the process of creation.