No Function Only Meaning

Voluminous grief is alive. How to live with it when being affected and vulnerable is considered a weakness? When pain is considered something to be kept private? Refusing social conventions that prescribe discrete grieving, Camila Capra experienced and interprets grief as neither encapsulated in a moment in time, nor placed in the past. The autoethnographic project explores the intimate and often unpredictable space of grieving, between memory and loss, through the malleability of clay. The raw clay enables placing death and loss outside of the self, and spatializing and shaping emotions. Through the materiality and process of clay, grief is granted relational, generative and reparative qualities.