Absence and Humor

It has been a while since my last update but I have continued to produce art and think via artistic means amongst the utmost frustration and sadness of rejection from exhibitions and other art world experiences.

On my website, I have posted images of recent works including humorous condolence cards (with handmade envelopes) and recipe cards for cremation.

I am currently working on a fundraising project for PAWS Ohio and a local pet cemetery titled PAWS and remember.

A project recently rejected for exhibition titled Markers is still currently in progress as well. The work is a series of coloring book pages illustrating gravemarkers. To be colored in with markers, crayons, etc. by adults and children alike, these pages will be on view at a local community center through a party and reception I will be hosting.

Through Markers, Bake Until Crisp: recipe cards for cremation, and my humorous condolence cards, I have come to realize I can look at how we mourn a death in a lighter manner that uses humor as a healthy tool for calming the anxieties surrounding death.

Bake Until Crisp: recipe cards for cremation. 2012. Image: Nicholas Fenell