UCI Illuminations presents Latinx Theatre: Past, Present, Future Wednesday, 5-6:30 p.m. This exhibition allows space for those stories,” Servon says.įor more information on “Saved: Objects of the Dead,” sponsored by UCI Illuminations, see. So many stories are never expressed but nonetheless special to us. “With poignant art such as this, you can open new worlds to people. She hopes that students will engage with the project on both academic and personal levels and that it will inspire them to work through their emotions via creative means, as she and Servon have. I was surprised by how many of them had experienced death and traumas so strongly but didn’t have an outlet for their pain,” Delany-Ullman says. “They responded to the class really well. Students read poems, memoirs and fiction about grief and discussed and wrote about their own encounters with it.

Last fall, Delany-Ullman decided to bring a piece of the project to UCI undergraduates through her writing course. Most recently, it was hosted at the San Juan Capistrano Library. The exhibition has appeared at numerous university campuses, museums and galleries across the country. “People are generous with the objects they share, and they reinforce the idea that this community of objects is a way to remember the people you’ve lost.” “It acknowledges that mourning is independent but also a process that needs community support,” Servon says. Having a platform for expressing grief, they note, encourages connection in times of pain. She cooked her favorite five, though her son only remembers three: Hawaiian pork chops, chuck wagon mac, and BBQ spare ribs.”ĭelany-Ullman and Servon invite anyone to submit their own items to be included on their social media pages. Everybody thought she was a redhead she was the cool mom on the block with shades and wigs. Or sometimes she wrote on strips of paper: I like this because. The text accompanying it, by Delany-Ullman, reads: “In her cookbooks, hundreds of dog-eared recipes. One image depicts a small, yellow chili container from Wendy’s. “The point is to focus on the object and its meaning.” “The descriptions are not always sentimental, as the photographs are not,” says the UCI alumna. “Saved: Objects of the Dead” features Servon’s images on striking white backgrounds, each paired with a poem or story carefully crafted by Delany-Ullman from a survivor’s memories of the item’s onetime owner. Ten years ago, they met at an artist residency and decided to blend their projects. Servon, who had lost her father and three friends in one year, began photographing people’s mementos of deceased loved ones. in English at UCI in 2003, had been grappling with the sudden death of her mother-in-law. The women both turned to creative expression to cope with grief. 17, it’s a collaboration between UCI English lecturer Lorene Delany-Ullman and North Carolina-based artist Jody Servon. At the UCI Student Center’s Viewpoint Gallery from Jan. These are among the items photographed for “Saved: Objects of the Dead,” an exhibition examining how material things can embody the otherwise abstract emotions of loss and memory. Share on X (Twitter) Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on EmailĪn antique slot machine.

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