Saved: Objects of the Dead
January 2023
Saved: Objects of the Dead is a collaborative project and book by Jody Servon, artist, and Lorene Delany-Ullman, poet. In an increasingly unstable world, we often gather in grief and seek connections—even with strangers—to acknowledge our human suffering. In Saved: Objects of the Dead, we explore the universality of how objects embody the otherwise abstract emotions of loss and memory. Pairing photography and prose, we chronicle the lives, deaths, and relationships of individuals whose objects are imbued with emotional and physical senses, then kept by others as an affirmation of their former lives. This book combines object, ethnography, and language with a sense of personal intimacy that addresses our human mortality.
Website: Saved: Objects of the Dead
Available at Artsuite, Book Soup, Los Angeles. and the North Carolina Museum of Art
Camouflage for the Neighborhood
From toy guns to weed-covered bunkers, this series of prose poems examines how the franchises of war pervade our quotidian lives and the complicity that the speaker, her family, and her suburban hometown endure and share in the propagation of violence.
Available at Firewheel Editions, Small Press Distribution, and Amazon.
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