'A sweet memory of you', new story on memory and mourning  | Tjorven Bruyneel

 

‘My grandfather's death is classified as an accident. At the age of 86, he died with a slap. Since my adult life, seeing friends his age slip away, he warned us that he would be next in line. With this in mind, little would change in the house or see any modernisation if it weren't for his children. Before they sold the house where my father and aunts grew up, they mourned 8 months by slowly emptying the house. Going together through my grandfather's possessions and memories, deciding which one would disappear or be taken home.’