My Father’s Death

My Father’s Death
Charcoal drawing on arches 300gsm rag, 2024.

Studio friend: Is it healing to draw your father in his coffin?
Me: No.

My Father’s Death reflects the complexity of parental loss, where grief is absent and replaced by relief. It examines the dissonance between lived emotional truth and the cultural script that dictates how one is expected to mourn a parent.