Alice Zoo’s photographs reflect on a series of family losses that happened unexpectedly over a period of six weeks in late summer 2017: “I was taking this dark thing and giving it a shape and a name”
Photo: Alice Zoo Through times of loss and grief, looking at visuals from the past to reflect can be healing. Whether it’s looking through family photos hiding in the back of your grandmother’s closet, watching old home videos, or revisiting your elementary-school diary, going back to the past can help you develop a new perspective or just fill a void momentarily.
Titled A Formal Feeling, Zoo’s series explores loss and how it felt as it happened to her. From processing packing up and leaving her childhood home with her siblings and mother to losing family members, these images of people, objects, and spaces became an alternative way of looking at the connection between the past and future. “A Formal Feeling ended up exploring the different ways that memories might be recorded, as opposed to, for example, the classic family album.
While Zoo’s personal experience of loss and grief is highly personal , she believes that a lot of what this series explores relates to the present through “the feeling of a lack of resolution that grief and loss can induce.” “I will say that the photographing and archiving that I was doing at the time gave me a sense of purpose and clarity: I was taking this dark thing and giving it a shape and a name,” she says. “So the project could serve as an example of the possibility and value of paying close attention to your surroundings, even under duress and bewilderment; the ability to make a record of a feeling, however transient, might perhaps provide some kind of foothold, some ground under one’s feet.
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