On October 11, 2024 my brother Rob died after a brutal 6-year battle with Lewy Body Dementia. It shook my world, as my Mom had died on December 26, 2019 and my Dad (who also died as a result of LBD) on August 27, 2018. It was just so much. Half of our family was gone. I was honored to have been with both my Dad and Rob in hospice until they took their last breaths, but Mom had gone suddenly. I was a wreck. Grief was new to me in 2018, and it didn’t get any easier by 2024. I cried A LOT, I thought A LOT. About how this time of life is so hard. About becoming the matriarch of our family. About how lucky we were to have had Erica, Rob’s caregiver (who worked 7 days a week!). About how grateful I am to have had such amazing parents and to have wonderful, funny siblings.

I also thought about how grief is changing. How it’s not talked about in hushed tones, or not at all. I’m learning how to grieve in an open and healthier way. And that’s how these cards came to be. There was almost a year where I didn’t make art. I traveled, I took photos, I met so many nice people, I let myself FEEL the wonderful-ness of life. And the ideas came. And all of the photos I’d been taking had a destination.

Kathy-woe is definitely a passion project. A way to express how you feel to someone grieving. In a real way. I hope you like them. They definitely come from the heart.

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