Hanna Orion

Within where the grief settles the spine emerges not merely as a structural form that holds bodies, but as a vessel and poetic archive of grief, memories, and the passage of time. There is grief within me, but grief does not only belong to me, as there is grief in the landscapes, grief in the sediments. Memory, like sediment, accumulates in layers, with some fragments buried deeply and others resurfacing when the tides and climate shift. Just as the body holds trauma and time, so too does the landscape, with layers of sediment and erosion echoing cyclical processes of loss and renewal.

 

My practice unfolds within this tension: between holding and releasing, softening and solidifying, between grief and the forms through which it releases.