Only the Bones, Project/Exhibition

Project Story about a relationship between two people going through an ending as one disappears into Alzheimer's Disease. Eventually to be published in book form.

Jerry Weldon

October 16, 1948 – April 20, 2016

Our lives came from the death of a star. Energy from the explosion turned into microbes and 14 billion years later, became us. Every subatomic particle of us came from the same material. To see the immensity of our unlikely existence is a phenomenon of our time.

We suffer loss. We grieve what we hope would be our future, who we hoped would be with us walking forward. We reach for grace as we watch the beauty of our planet disappear. We are faced with imagining new ways of being and being with each other.

It takes practice to lift our conversation out of fear and into something else. We search for new ways to relate. We have delicate conversations.

I learned to stand my ground against grief. I learned to not look away, instead to hold it, and to keep breathing. It shifts, it shares its other side. It transforms to the place where love lives, and into courage.

Pa`auilo Mauka, Hawai`i Island, May 2018