'What grief displays is the thrall in which our relations with others holds us, in ways that we cannot always recount or explain, in ways that often interrupt the self-conscious account of ourselves we might try to provide, in ways that challenge the very notion of ourselves as autonomous and in control. ...I tell a story about the relations I choose, only to expose, somewhere along the way, the way I am gripped and undone by these very relations. My narrative falters, as it must.' (Judith Butler, contemporary philosopher, 2003*)

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How can we speak about mourning? Through presenting these photos as untitled I hope to engage viewers in reflecting on their own personal associations to experiences of loss and grief. Are linear narratives of grieving and mourning sufficient? As a relational analytical psychotherapist having studied in art and in philosophy my interest and concern is with the unique, unexpected, and diverse ways in which we experience loss. Consciously and unconsciously, through words, images, and gestures our shifting relations with whom or with what we have lost are revealed to ourselves and to others. It is crucial for our sense of our own lived time, present, past, and future, that the complexities of our grief are responded to with sensitivity, respect, and imagination.