Surrounded By Natural Causes

This project began long before I was aware of it. Going about everyday life while navigating the complexities of long term illness and eventual loss of a parent, I find myself occasionally in a dissociative dreamlike state. In Surrounded By Natural Causes, I attempt to confront the unrelenting dailiness (the title comes from a bizarre obituary that’s meant to be written by an AI bot), and traverse a confusing landscape of remembering and misremembering. It’s unclear to me whether memory can be fully trusted, and I fill those gaps with imagined scenes. This work is a meditation on grief, memory, identity, and familial bonds.