i think about william emmerson referring to the jigsaw apprentices as disciples CONSTANTLY. he was so attached to the message of the jigsaw killings that he thought of it as a fucking religion. "Salvation was offered but declined" HELLO???
Long post but here's a sketch dump of some unfinished pieces I've worked on over the last year to celebrate my 1 year Sawversary! (order of newest to oldest :)))
I unfortunately lost a lot of my wips recently because I was stupid and mass deleted a lot of files, but I was able to find these for y'all!
Grief is an interesting subject for depiction, because it isn't ever really just one feeling. It's a cluster of feelings, an array of very different, sometimes almost contradictory emotional states, which collectively we understand as expressions of that one underlying condition, which is grieving.
So how do you show that? How do you take that and make it visible to an audience? Many, many artists have tried, and their attempts are varied, fascinating, and very occasionally heartbreaking.
Let's take a little non-comprehensive walking tour of grief in art history, from the 1400s to the 2020s, from the religious to the cartoony, and get in our feelings a bit.