Vera’s denim jacket, the one her best friend passed on to me, photographed next to two things I made after she died: a figure of Jesus I drew and screen-printed, and a wallpaper I designed and hand-printed in her memory. The jacket covered in patches and paint, the prints bright beside it.
Making things was the only response I had. A screen print, a length of wallpaper, a jacket kept and photographed, all of it a way of keeping busy and keeping her close at the same time. Grief and print work, done in the same few weeks, in the same room.
Part of the Remembering Vera case study.