A Winter Hymnal (Songs For My Father)
A compilation of nine photographs documenting a series of rituals performed in my garden this past winter
in memory of my father Elmer Pohl, who died on December 22, 2009.
A Winter Hymnal (Songs for My Father) is my contribution to a new group show called Responding, which
opens this Friday April 16 at Future Tenant and runs through May 15. Responding is curated by Anna Mikolay.
Responding:
In November of 2006 I buried my 13 year old dog Sherman under an old lilac tree in the back yard behind
my home. Soon after, I began to use his burial site as a place to perform puja (devotional ritual) ceremonies.
This personally sacred site has become for me a place to reflect upon love and reverence, memory, loss, time
and the nature of decay.
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