A journey with grief, Among flowers and bones is an exhibition and thesis paper exploring the subjects of death, memory and afterlife, based upon complicated personal grief and trauma stemming from mental illness and the ongoing opioid crisis. This journey is expressed through an incomplete collection of photography, found objects, video, autoethnography and poetry. Pondering questions of what does it mean to ‘be in-between’? I examine the relationships between grief and liminal spaces. Using an array of analogue and digital techniques such as collage, image transfer, 16mm film, and polaroids, I create dreamscapes that explore both presence and absence, preservation and decay, loss and longing. Fusing images and found objects I conjure altars, creating space to embody one’s grief and open up communication around topics of loss. Death guides my research from the Cemetery, and the liminal, to Hauntology, Spiritualism and death rituals. Through questioning our relationships to objects, to understanding how trauma effects our memory and bodies, I search for a way to live amongst the heaviness. Infusing my emotion in the processes of making through cathartic and repetitive mutations, with the belief that the act of creating is transformative and healing. I am finding ways to honour both the death and life, that surrounds us.