What Might Have Been | Cathy Ross
Photograph
79cm x 118cm
What Might Have Been speaks to the grief we feel over things that could have been but never were. Stories that were snuffed out before they could even begin; hopes and dreams and expectations that never came to be. This photograph depicts the ashes of a book, burned in a cathartic expression of grief-filled rage. The burned pages, monochromatic and cropped closely, become an abstracted metaphor for life after the death of hope. Focusing on the texture of the feeling itself and allowing the viewer to fall into the pages of their own untold, unhappening stories.
Photograph
79cm x 118cm
What Might Have Been speaks to the grief we feel over things that could have been but never were. Stories that were snuffed out before they could even begin; hopes and dreams and expectations that never came to be. This photograph depicts the ashes of a book, burned in a cathartic expression of grief-filled rage. The burned pages, monochromatic and cropped closely, become an abstracted metaphor for life after the death of hope. Focusing on the texture of the feeling itself and allowing the viewer to fall into the pages of their own untold, unhappening stories.
Photograph
79cm x 118cm
What Might Have Been speaks to the grief we feel over things that could have been but never were. Stories that were snuffed out before they could even begin; hopes and dreams and expectations that never came to be. This photograph depicts the ashes of a book, burned in a cathartic expression of grief-filled rage. The burned pages, monochromatic and cropped closely, become an abstracted metaphor for life after the death of hope. Focusing on the texture of the feeling itself and allowing the viewer to fall into the pages of their own untold, unhappening stories.