MOURN VI

Whether it is a person, place or paradise lost. The label of mourning itself has different symptoms. The cause remains: loss. Loss of potential. The loss of the next “hello”. The loss of embrace. What is gained is a hole. A heavy whole, weighted by the absent.

Through the years of sourcing stock images for subjects, often finding there were almost half the results for “Man crying” than “Woman crying”. ‘MOURN’ is a counter to this experience. Adding fragility and serenity, absent from the source. The societal skew of masculinity and femininity continues…

MOURN VI

[DIGITAL ARTWORK, 2023]

‘Existing imagery, rendered in noisy ember effect, with typographic frame.’

IMAGE SOURCE:

Unsplash “closeup photo of a man's face” - by Benjamín Castillo.

TYPEFACE:

‘BRUTUX — OL’ by Olio Studio.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

An oval shaped artwork depicting a close up shot of a masculine-presenting face with several tears streaming down their face. Half of their face is Red. Rendered in a noisy Red and Black, with text on each side in a blocked typeface that reads ‘MOURN VI’. All on a Black background.