Numbness
Numbness
A feeling of detachment can often follow the initial shock of losing a loved one. My series Numbness captures those physical and emotional deprivations that come on the heels of loss. The hazy, vacant beaches of Jericho—an expansive landscape in a moment of desolation—invoke the utter depletion I felt in my mourning. Images of beached logs rest like lifeless bodies, poles stand at attention, static and unadorned as if lost the haze and removed from the rest of the landscape, while tracks in the sand recall my state of dreamlike suspension, where it was hard to differentiate between being awake and asleep. Cloaked in the fog of loss, everything in my life appeared to remain sedated, even while time moved on.