Category: Interview

• Beauty in Decomposition: An Interview With Artist AJ Hawkins

  

  Death & the Maiden co-founder, Sarah Chavez, talks to artist AJ Hawkins about her recent series, The Reclamation, which beautifully examines the decomposition of human bodies and the nutrient cycle through art.

  Death and the Maiden

  23/05/2017

  Interview, Sarah Troop

  adipocere, Art, blowflies, body farm, cadaver, Corpse, Death, Death Positive, decomposition, entomology, forensics, mushrooms, mycology, painting, Post-Mortem, putrefaction, sally mann, Science, soil

• Keening & the Death Wail

  S Elizabeth interviews musician Gemma Fleet of The Wharves on her project “Lost Voices” which explores vocal improvisation in folk culture. Volume 1. “Keening and the Death Wail” has roots in Fleet’s own childhood. She believes she encountered an Irish traveler funeral; an “unhindered display of grief” wherein the woman in mourning was not being hushed,…

  Death and the Maiden

  02/05/2016

  Guest Post, Interview

  Art, Collective Sorrow, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Death Wails, Gemma Fleet, Grief, History, Laments, Language, Mourning, Mourning Practice, Music, The Wharves, Tradition, Voices

• The Winter of Our Lives

  Death & the Maidens’ own Lucy Talbot talks with Dr Monica Williams-Murphy about her role as Emergency Medicine Physician, the experiences that led her to write the wonderful It’s OK to Die and travel across America educating and advocating for a better approach to death and dying. Explaining why we all need to prepare for the…

  Death and the Maiden

  07/06/2015

  Book Club, Interview, Lucy Coleman Talbot

  Change, Deadmaidens, Death, Doctors, Dying, Dying Matters, Education, End of Life, Experiences, Gender Roles, Good Death, Grief, Holistic Approaches, Hospice, Its OK to Die, Life, Life Cycle, Medical Practice, Medicine, Monica Williams-Murphy, Nature, Palliative Care, Preparation, Seasons, Society, Sprituality, Winter