Longing for David

Longing for David (2013 – 20) The series of self portraits ' Longing for David' records and explores my process of mourning. Wrapping myself in my late husband’s clothing, I desire to feel David's physical presence. Placing his favorite pieces of clothing on and over my body and holding on to them for their connections to David – a t-shirt, a pair of well-worn blue jeans, a pinstripe blazer. A large soft shirt drapes wrapped around my body. As with my dress series from the 1980s I again use my body— specifically my torso— as an intermediary, to absorb and mediate the external with the internal. David’s work-gloves held tightly with my own hands over my breasts allude to the physicality between David & myself, husband and wife.