Grief Art

This piece reflects loss, love, memory, and continuing bonds.
Take what resonates. Leave the rest.

Sketch of a woman and a child holding hands, looking at a yellow balloon outdoors at night. The scene is black and white with the balloon in color, and there is a website URL at the bottom.
A painted illustration of a sad, anthropomorphic donkey plush toy sitting on a wooden dock by a lake, holding a red balloon, with teary eyes and a sorrowful expression, surrounded by tall pine trees in a misty forest.

Still Carrying It

Some days grief feels heavy and awkward, like something you don’t quite know how to hold.
It doesn’t go anywhere. It just sits with you, asking to be carried a little longer.

A large close-up of a human eye with a reflection of a man holding a cloth in the tear, which resembles a droplet, and a large tear falling from the eye.

What Shows

Some grief never makes it to the surface.
It lives just under the skin, visible only in small, quiet ways.

A surreal painting of a woman with long flowing hair, reaching forward with a distressed expression, with a large clock showing approximately 10:11 in the background, and sand dunes surrounding her.

Out of Time

Grief doesn’t follow clocks or calendars.
It moves at its own pace, regardless of what the world expects.

Surviving Without a Choice

This is not the survival people applaud.
This is the survival of bodies that didn’t get a vote.
Of hearts that keep beating even when they are done.
Of women who are tired of being strong but remain anyway.
Still here. Not by will. By life.

A sad-looking panda holding a sign that says 'NOPE' stands near a decorated Christmas tree. The scene appears to be set indoors with a few Christmas ornaments on the floor.

Nope

Some days grief is too much.
So you don’t explain it. You just can’t.

Held Together

There is a kind of living that isn’t living.
It’s being held in place.
By expectation. By memory. By other people’s comfort.
By the version of you the world learned to pull.