Transitando tu ausencia

Abstract

Grief is experienced in stages as it progresses. The death of my mother and accepting the condition of being an orphan motivated me to understand the dynamics involved in healing the absence of a person with whom an attachment has been established since childhood. Drawing on psychoanalysis, I aim to present a series of concepts through the visual arts. To honor my mother's memory and work, I connect sewing and the stages of grief with the response to the process involved in accepting it. Alongside this, Piedad Bonnett's work, "What Has No Name," broadens the spectrum to represent, through literature, an artistic perspective on the emptiness and affectation of the mother-child relationship, revealing the dynamics of parenting, strengthening John Bowlby's attachment theory, and highlighting the stages of grief proposed by Kübler-Ross.