Milk with two sugars

2019

Grieving the loss of someone we love tears open our hearts, turns our lives upside down and is one of the most emotionally intense experiences we can go through in our lives. While grief is unique to every individual, some of us suffer so greatly with our loss, that we become overwhelmed with the idea of forgetting sometimes even the smallest memories of a loved one. For some, trying to preserve the memories of the deceased can help free us to live beyond our grief and move forward without feeling guilty that we may in time, forget parts of them.

My father died on a Monday in September, 2008 after a very short battle with Oesophageal cancer. Since that day, I have suffered immensely with grief but also with an overpowering fear that I am slowly forgetting parts of him, now that his physical presence is no longer in the world. After his death, my Mother packed some of his belongings away in a large black box that has been kept in a cupboard for the last eleven years.

While intimately exploring themes of family, loss and grief, Milk with Two Sugars is a documentation of those memories, both tangible and personal.