by Katie Winter, Sarah Anjali Kurien, Megan Embers

This project is entitled fieldnotes: grief(case). We will explore the open spaces of Douglas County while exploring how to open ourselves up to a space for grief. On these adventures we will take with us an old green suitcase as a symbolic reminder that we all carry some grief within us. It is both a weight and a gift.

“I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, eyes – 
I wonder if It weighs like Mine – 
Or has an Easier size.”
(Emily Dickinson)

As we explore the county we will film the landscape, take pictures and write fieldnotes. We will combine these to create original pieces of art to share publicly. Along the way we will incorporate guiding resources that include poetry, essays, maps, and songs as well as current best practices in psychology. We define grief, defined as not just as death but by any loss – and directly defined by love.