https://www.jessiediblasi.com/nonna-to-nana daily 0.75 2025-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1562501892247-27BMEF2A3L9OJ09ZY77X/N2NCover.jpg Nonna to Nana Nonna to Nana: Stories of Food and Family is documentary style cookbook that explores the seamless connection between love and nourishment. Created by Melbourne sister duo, Jessie and Jacqueline DiBlasi (Photographer/Designer), fifteen Australian grandmothers from diverse cultural backgrounds invited the sisters into their homes to share stories from their kitchens. Creating a project that explores much more than ingredients and method – each recipe and story honours the dedication and legacy of these women. www.nonnatonana.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1562501892247-27BMEF2A3L9OJ09ZY77X/N2NCover.jpg Nonna to Nana Nonna to Nana: Stories of Food and Family is documentary style cookbook that explores the seamless connection between love and nourishment. Created by Melbourne sister duo, Jessie and Jacqueline DiBlasi (Photographer/Designer), fifteen Australian grandmothers from diverse cultural backgrounds invited the sisters into their homes to share stories from their kitchens. Creating a project that explores much more than ingredients and method – each recipe and story honours the dedication and legacy of these women. www.nonnatonana.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1562498759795-PZXSDCU1QXWZNIAEICCK/N2N_001.jpg Nonna to Nana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1562498754699-FX6OL5UAQ4HQY9JL4OBA/N2N_002.jpg Nonna to Nana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1570242611908-P46ZDBWN8LE5CUSBFDPQ/DiBlasi_N2N03.jpg Nonna to Nana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1562501565889-1MB43YX1KDSEU8WJF1VM/N2N_003.jpg Nonna to Nana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1570242581261-9SU1AYH3HVHLCWERQVF2/DiBlasi_N2N09.jpg Nonna to Nana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d9b7181d07c0cd16df5f11/1457112491687-0S0MDUYFV1IQ6FAZTI20/portraits-82.65.2_PS2.jpg Nonna to Nana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1562501569181-6PUT190MZMHDGTAI8PCV/N2N_005.jpg Nonna to Nana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1570242490227-AA1HWGBSKMCGX0HBKBHE/DiBlasi_N2N05.jpg Nonna to Nana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1570242560694-1243F3CHTHFN27UCWY7T/DiBlasi_N2N06.jpg Nonna to Nana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727611280865-T4S8CSLRAQZ9WNPRN1K0/image-asset.jpeg Nonna to Nana Video preview of a chapter of Nonna to Nana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d9b7181d07c0cd16df5f11/1457108948941-TBB1X97QMGRFOO3H3Z1J/82.65.424_PS1.jpg Nonna to Nana https://www.jessiediblasi.com/could-you-hold-this-for-me daily 0.75 2024-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727523688244-FOAMEQ1RK5WJMTEB9ZB0/CYHTFM_01.jpg Could You Hold This For Me? There’s nothing more than a narrow strip of concrete pavement separating me from the relentless, oncoming traffic of Ho Chi Minh City. As a safety measure this ‘footpath’ is tokenistic at best, and I stand perfectly still as scooters, cars, buses and cyclists compete for space and momentum. Without care, fear or hesitation, scooters ride up and around pedestrians and hotel guests, riders balancing their lives and loved ones as they whizz by. In Could you hold this for me? space and time are suspended, and there’s no way of knowing what has been captured within the small square frame until it has fully processed. A moment shared in the chaos, each image delights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727523438723-2NZW0HWPLK61YFTQGM7V/CYHTFM_LR_01.jpg Could You Hold This For Me? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727523688244-FOAMEQ1RK5WJMTEB9ZB0/CYHTFM_01.jpg Could You Hold This For Me? There’s nothing more than a narrow strip of concrete pavement separating me from the relentless, oncoming traffic of Ho Chi Minh City. As a safety measure this ‘footpath’ is tokenistic at best, and I stand perfectly still as scooters, cars, buses and cyclists compete for space and momentum. Without care, fear or hesitation, scooters ride up and around pedestrians and hotel guests, riders balancing their lives and loved ones as they whizz by. In Could you hold this for me? space and time are suspended, and there’s no way of knowing what has been captured within the small square frame until it has fully processed. A moment shared in the chaos, each image delights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727523587194-F0X1J7OHPG0TG0OOMSC0/CYHTFM_02.jpg Could You Hold This For Me? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727523586902-RK4WTJ33MMV9UAHVVUQ2/CYHTFM_03.jpg Could You Hold This For Me? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727523589526-3ZX5OJN81J8DA98OANAP/CYHTFM_04.jpg Could You Hold This For Me? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727523590269-TJDVE5OQFGBS894IW48O/CYHTFM_05.jpg Could You Hold This For Me? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727523591805-YZHZFXEQPDF05YPB6PA9/CYHTFM_06.jpg Could You Hold This For Me? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727523593041-6BSOYGEXN19QL2N9VY43/CYHTFM_07.jpg Could You Hold This For Me? https://www.jessiediblasi.com/old-year-new daily 0.75 2025-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1598885514483-W7ADCMC65BDNAEIBQ8M3/DIBLASI_GALE_OYN_02.jpg Old Year New Old Year New, a collaboration created by Australian photographers Jessie DiBlasi and Robert Gale is their response to the contradiction of Northern Hemisphere end of year rituals overlaid, and often clumsily contextualised, across a southern hemisphere climate. Confronted by the Australian festive narrative of Santa on a surfboard or suffering through roast lunches in sweltering heat, the work observes the history of religious festival, feasting and customs, that all share unique and unifying similarities that invite us as humans to take time to reflect and renew. Old Year New continues as an ongoing exploration of the contrasting cultural, religious and celebratory rituals around the world that occur as one year ends and a new one begins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1598885514483-W7ADCMC65BDNAEIBQ8M3/DIBLASI_GALE_OYN_02.jpg Old Year New Old Year New, a collaboration created by Australian photographers Jessie DiBlasi and Robert Gale is their response to the contradiction of Northern Hemisphere end of year rituals overlaid, and often clumsily contextualised, across a southern hemisphere climate. Confronted by the Australian festive narrative of Santa on a surfboard or suffering through roast lunches in sweltering heat, the work observes the history of religious festival, feasting and customs, that all share unique and unifying similarities that invite us as humans to take time to reflect and renew. Old Year New continues as an ongoing exploration of the contrasting cultural, religious and celebratory rituals around the world that occur as one year ends and a new one begins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1598885484681-VPZHIGINC7WS8U1QC51W/DIBLASI_GALE_OYN_03.jpg Old Year New https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1562495904578-T7AJ1BUV7UVR4SJ2G96X/JessieDiBlasi_Elizabeth+Chong.jpg Old Year New https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1598885493016-3EWSFEEP8TDROD4V91CH/DIBLASI_GALE_OYN_04.jpg Old Year New https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727584827623-JAELFC3GH8PJJQCEANRV/DIBLASI_GALE_OYN_06.jpg Old Year New https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727585358983-FJGB6LBP916L2LOVPBO8/DIBLASI_GALE_OYN_12.jpg Old Year New https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1598885505878-NHXFJVA1NIPUCO5LKO6V/DIBLASI_GALE_OYN_01.jpg Old Year New https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727584883751-Z6NOE9D37EDSZ3GUHFUT/DIBLASI_GALE_OYN_08.jpg Old Year New https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727584775016-WKF373969WQASVJACULB/image-asset.jpeg Old Year New https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727584968253-P6VW3KPKYRXP1OBVUK6W/DIBLASI_GALE_OYN_10.jpg Old Year New https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727584921988-9V4S6TL4Y4VNTCG4KI7F/DIBLASI_GALE_OYN_07.jpg Old Year New https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727585566589-GX43999CGCSS6PFSC2LO/DIBLASI_GALE_OYN_09.jpg Old Year New https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727588230379-R7OEZRNA70VSV876TL31/DIBLASI_GALE_OYN_13.jpg Old Year New https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1758597358208-RMVGSQQIZBDB5QK9LFIX/image-asset.jpeg Old Year New 2022 Making Space residency, Siteworks Brunswick https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1758597321229-86O9DYFP8SZB08CHLKVK/DIBLASI_GALE_OYN_14.jpg Old Year New 2022 Making Space residency, Siteworks Brunswick https://www.jessiediblasi.com/the-hand-eye-project daily 0.75 2024-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727586593525-EI6OZ1IUKJSWMWF94FGV/DIBLASI_GALE_Block+Printing+_02b+SCREEN+.jpg The Hand/Eye Project The Hand/Eye Project began in 2020 in Ahmedabad, India – minutes before the world was halted by the COVID pandemic. Hosted by artist and educator LoKesh Ghai, we joined Australian textile artists Eddy Carroll and Alasdair MacKinnon in collaboration with master and apprentice block makers Govind and Satish Bhai, and the Parijat Studio to document places, people and process of a creative residency. On the edge of the Sabarmati River, beyond Ahmedabad’s city limits we were welcomed by founder Paulomi Lalbhai and given the opportunity to document one of the last surviving sustainable studios that uses traditional block-printing methods in a purpose-built printing studio, operated by artisan practitioners that are skilled in hand-applied, pin registered printing. Read more at Garland Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727586593525-EI6OZ1IUKJSWMWF94FGV/DIBLASI_GALE_Block+Printing+_02b+SCREEN+.jpg The Hand/Eye Project The Hand/Eye Project began in 2020 in Ahmedabad, India – minutes before the world was halted by the COVID pandemic. Hosted by artist and educator LoKesh Ghai, we joined Australian textile artists Eddy Carroll and Alasdair MacKinnon in collaboration with master and apprentice block makers Govind and Satish Bhai, and the Parijat Studio to document places, people and process of a creative residency. On the edge of the Sabarmati River, beyond Ahmedabad’s city limits we were welcomed by founder Paulomi Lalbhai and given the opportunity to document one of the last surviving sustainable studios that uses traditional block-printing methods in a purpose-built printing studio, operated by artisan practitioners that are skilled in hand-applied, pin registered printing. Read more at Garland Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727586587005-A8ORZ4TV6VGAG612RPNT/DIBLASI_GALE_Block+Printing+_01+SCREEN.jpg The Hand/Eye Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727586590766-NCW2HXKFEJ01EDO8ZJGT/DIBLASI_GALE_Block+Printing+_02a+SCREEN+.jpg The Hand/Eye Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727586608787-TMZFUH0ZYW7OU0LIL1HB/DIBLASI_GALE_Block+Printing+_05b+SCREEN.jpg The Hand/Eye Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727586596767-K4R73F2VKMXEJVA3UMRC/DIBLASI_GALE_Block+Printing+_03+SCREEN.jpg The Hand/Eye Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727586603656-XUJ67VV29OFRP2OUXGMD/DIBLASI_GALE_Block+Printing+_05a+SCREEN.jpg The Hand/Eye Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727586619074-O41FWLNDITL1XXO37UEK/DIBLASI_GALE_Block+Printing+_10+SCREEN.jpg The Hand/Eye Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727586624094-KCDAITZPFJYUOW3ARUYT/DIBLASI_GALE_Block+Printing+_12+SCREEN.jpg The Hand/Eye Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727586614350-FJQGSIYM9E80A6Y4Y75B/DIBLASI_GALE_Block+Printing+_07+SCREEN.jpg The Hand/Eye Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727586615342-AYOM2M2DKJAOOK964LN5/DIBLASI_GALE_Block+Printing+_09+SCREEN.jpg The Hand/Eye Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727586632287-ONL7NRM4IEHQIJWBNGSG/DIBLASI_GALE_Block+Printing+_13a+SCREEN.jpg The Hand/Eye Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727586624522-WQYJXOVP1EAGMCWTMUVB/DIBLASI_GALE_Block+Printing+_11+SCREEN.jpg The Hand/Eye Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727586633784-L9WA1H43N94JLDXBFP8C/DIBLASI_GALE_Block+Printing+_13b+SCREEN.jpg The Hand/Eye Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727586637402-KI4EXM89H2G7E9MHLQ22/DIBLASI_GALE_Block+Printing+_14+SCREEN.jpg The Hand/Eye Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727586673809-10DD1B9HM6H6TX9Z4LB9/DIBLASI_GALE_Block+Printing+_15+SCREEN.jpg The Hand/Eye Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727611921695-7YG8LJTQPF02E0LJEH7W/image-asset.jpeg The Hand/Eye Project The colour of plum pop-up exhibition – Schoolhouse Studios, Coburg https://www.jessiediblasi.com/urban-eats daily 0.75 2024-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727588393690-KLB6ZZWIIRCZLV7ZEDAE/DIBLASI_21-07-28_23418-1.jpg Urban Eats Urban Eats united multi-disciplinary artists inviting them to explore the diversity of food throughout Melbourne in response to traditional, new and transformational waves of food culture. Created as a map of edible change and development, the exhibition presented works made in response to the rich tapestry of cultural diversity found in Melbourne, enticing viewers to participate in experiences born from ritual, celebration and the sharing of food. A basic human need, food and food culture unite us all. What we eat and how we eat it says much about our culture and social mores and the impact these spaces have on our wellbeing, routines and sense of place. The exhibition created a visual and immersive experience of inner urban food makers and producers that audiences were invited to dig into! Artists included: Eddy Carroll, Samanta Bakker, Jessie DiBlasi (curator), Robert Gale, Alasdair MacKinnon, Kenny Pittock, Lucy Roleff, Chloe Smith, Pauline Tran + Stephanie Dix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727588393690-KLB6ZZWIIRCZLV7ZEDAE/DIBLASI_21-07-28_23418-1.jpg Urban Eats Urban Eats united multi-disciplinary artists inviting them to explore the diversity of food throughout Melbourne in response to traditional, new and transformational waves of food culture. Created as a map of edible change and development, the exhibition presented works made in response to the rich tapestry of cultural diversity found in Melbourne, enticing viewers to participate in experiences born from ritual, celebration and the sharing of food. A basic human need, food and food culture unite us all. What we eat and how we eat it says much about our culture and social mores and the impact these spaces have on our wellbeing, routines and sense of place. The exhibition created a visual and immersive experience of inner urban food makers and producers that audiences were invited to dig into! Artists included: Eddy Carroll, Samanta Bakker, Jessie DiBlasi (curator), Robert Gale, Alasdair MacKinnon, Kenny Pittock, Lucy Roleff, Chloe Smith, Pauline Tran + Stephanie Dix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727588390385-V0G9IYEFSZ6KIWX2WZT8/DIBLASI_21-07-28_23405-1.jpg Urban Eats https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727588390840-BMZW6JV4P0TKE4VL6NLJ/DIBLASI_21-07-28_23407-1.jpg Urban Eats https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727588394551-WGN37J4UE3J0JO53NBH0/DIBLASI_21-07-28_23422-1.jpg Urban Eats https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727588386791-GM5D1FVMAKFXRHO5TYO4/DIBLASI_21-07-28_23404-1.jpg Urban Eats https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727588396441-XF3VDHUIVUZY2CYDUCF8/DIBLASI_21-07-28_23428-1.jpg Urban Eats https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727588403817-3V4O6CODGVD4AXM6XD7B/DIBLASI_21-07-28_23471-1.jpg Urban Eats https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727588400022-T22GJRI7GMT2GF3EE290/DIBLASI_21-07-28_23442-1.jpg Urban Eats https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727588401110-9RCN8J2OUVBU8LOTEEGU/DIBLASI_21-07-28_23457-1.jpg Urban Eats https://www.jessiediblasi.com/despatch daily 0.75 2024-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727590640206-37AD23N97QX9RBSRJWTY/DIBLASI_Despatch_JNL_06.JPG Despatch Despatch was the exhibition outcome of mail art created by sixty-two Work Show Grow artists from across the world in 2022. For this inaugural art residency, twenty-one artists stayed in New Forest in the UK, visiting the Heritage Centre, Museum, archives, and surrounding natural landscape. Artists in New Forest considered vital information they wished to share with collaborative artists who participated virtually. Artwork was collaboratively created and despatched in A5 envelopes. The work took trips across the world from Switzerland to Australia, from Portugal to the USA and then back to the New Forest Heritage Centre for exhibition. Final artistic outcomes included photography, textile, sound, drawing and ceramics.–– The visual project created by collaborating artists, Lizzie Ransom (UK, work via New Forest), Jessie DiBlasi (Melbourne, Australia) and Noemi (Paris, France) explored our collective response to the ideas of abundance and scarcity of nature. The work was presented in New Forest in the form of a fold-out booklet that revealed a fragile (unfixed) lumen print stitched in place with red cotton thread. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727590640206-37AD23N97QX9RBSRJWTY/DIBLASI_Despatch_JNL_06.JPG Despatch Despatch was the exhibition outcome of mail art created by sixty-two Work Show Grow artists from across the world in 2022. For this inaugural art residency, twenty-one artists stayed in New Forest in the UK, visiting the Heritage Centre, Museum, archives, and surrounding natural landscape. Artists in New Forest considered vital information they wished to share with collaborative artists who participated virtually. Artwork was collaboratively created and despatched in A5 envelopes. The work took trips across the world from Switzerland to Australia, from Portugal to the USA and then back to the New Forest Heritage Centre for exhibition. Final artistic outcomes included photography, textile, sound, drawing and ceramics.–– The visual project created by collaborating artists, Lizzie Ransom (UK, work via New Forest), Jessie DiBlasi (Melbourne, Australia) and Noemi (Paris, France) explored our collective response to the ideas of abundance and scarcity of nature. The work was presented in New Forest in the form of a fold-out booklet that revealed a fragile (unfixed) lumen print stitched in place with red cotton thread. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727590659460-EDZ4MTEA4Z8EE6TYCRF9/DIBLASI_Despatch_JNL_03.JPG Despatch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727590635875-3L1YYZ9NPJ670C2VCSXI/DIBLASI_Despatch_JNL_02.JPG Despatch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727590661420-10X1U9L36MS3ZC9BYKE7/DIBLASI_Despatch_JNL_05.JPG Despatch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1727612123304-9QAY1NBJW4O6IZ3KF1UA/image-asset.jpeg Despatch A look through the collaborative artist book created as part of the Despatch virtual residency. https://www.jessiediblasi.com/the-long-goodbye daily 0.75 2025-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1758607470189-M8FHOUC66OFA78KS2S8K/image-asset.jpeg The Long Goodbye The Long Goodbye is an ongoing exploration of loss and displacement experienced following the deaths of my paternal grandparents. It follows on from previous published work Nonna to Nana: Stories of food and family that represented a form of living preparation for future grief and loss. “Who’s going to cook like Nonna, once she’s gone?” my father exclaimed, all those years ago. Their home, and the productive garden surrounding it, was the beating heart of our family. A central vessel that contained our lives, love, pain and nourished us both physically and emotionally and without them, it slowly died. Stripped bare for the lure of new inhabitants and prepared for auction, the real-estate images depraved of any semblance of its life before. Drawing from the family archive and lumens, the home is reconstructed. Memory and the merging of love and grief. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d218a5ae78753000149ae11/1758607470189-M8FHOUC66OFA78KS2S8K/image-asset.jpeg The Long Goodbye The Long Goodbye is an ongoing exploration of loss and displacement experienced following the deaths of my paternal grandparents. It follows on from previous published work Nonna to Nana: Stories of food and family that represented a form of living preparation for future grief and loss. “Who’s going to cook like Nonna, once she’s gone?” my father exclaimed, all those years ago. Their home, and the productive garden surrounding it, was the beating heart of our family. A central vessel that contained our lives, love, pain and nourished us both physically and emotionally and without them, it slowly died. Stripped bare for the lure of new inhabitants and prepared for auction, the real-estate images depraved of any semblance of its life before. Drawing from the family archive and lumens, the home is reconstructed. 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