AFTER THE FUNERAL
by Jordan Sullivan
Published by Jane & Jeremy, 2016

Named one of the best books of 2016 by IMA Magazine

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Blinding the clocks. Painting over our mistakes with future failures. Pretending we can hide from time. We see her ghost moving through these fields, creating light in the darkness. A voice of silence tells us we were here before, as drifters and dreams. We are crying like a new day. We grow Heaven in scorched earth. We harvest memories of lost years. We move through blind color. The sound of the sun echoes through all things. Your last breath is your first.

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This series was made after my grandmother’s funeral. Following the ceremony I stopped along the road to photograph a field of wildflowers that had recently bloomed near the house where she lived.