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Ode to Grief

Chandra Sandoval

From: $280.00

PRODUCT DETAILS

  • Limited edition archival print
“Ode to Grief” is Sandoval's most personal and searching image — a stark, black and white still life of peonies in various stages of bloom and decay, gathered in a rough-hewn wooden dough bowl against a dark geometric tile ground. Some petals are fully open and luminous, others curling inward or fallen, the whole arrangement existing in that achingly honest space between beauty and loss. Shot in monochrome, the image carries the weight its title promises — grief rendered not as darkness alone, but as something that contains within it the persistence of beauty, the way a flower can be magnificent and fragile and fading all at once. For Sandoval, who picked up her camera in the aftermath of devastating loss and found in it a reason to keep seeing, this image carries a particular truth: that beauty and sorrow are not opposites, but companions, and that the act of looking carefully at both is how we find our way back to being alive. Sandoval takes large format color pictures of landscapes and found objects. Each body of work is created while on immersive trips to specific pockets of the world.
Size + Price
18 x 12
$280

20 x 14
$350

24 x 16
$410

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