Ecocene Journal, Grief Cloak, December 2024

Alexandrya Eaton shares her creative processes for managing grief as a parent whose adult children have left home, and the ways it lives in her body - muscles, heart, and brain. Throughout the series of artworks, she poetically articulates how grief can be fluid, embodied, and held like the large brightly coloured cloak she wears.

Eaton's performative actions of wearing, walking, dragging, beating, tearing, and eventually repairing the cloak become emblems of cathartic reverie and connection. Grief here is portrayed through breath and action, isolation and stress. Each moment is potent, innately sculptural and ghostly.

~prOphecy sun