(detail) In the Mourning at the End of the Day

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Artist: Bethany Taylor

Title: (detail) In the Mourning at the End of the Day

Attribution: (detail) In the Mourning at the End of the Day, 2024, Bethany Taylor

Year: 2024

Materials: lace, ink and fiber-based drawing

Dimensions: (detail) size variable installation

Image Statement: In a state of mourning the division between them becomes blurred. Immersed in unrelenting violence and injustice, they accept each new day, and the burden of mourning demanded of them; for one must bear the weight of unfathomable loss and consequence. They dutifully soak in the toxins and melt into sorrow for as long as sorrow requires them to. In this time, they become part of a vast and vanishing ecology they have never directly experienced, with other life forms they have never really seen. All life equally has the right to mourn, and to be mourned. Grieving can be none other than veiled action, but lament also motivates them toward a future marked by practices of care. In a state of mourning, they are immaterial, as the glaring sun disappears on the horizon at the end of the day.