GOOD GRIEF

an exhibition by Summer ‘24 Summer AIR’s

Morgan Strahorn & Chantal Wnuk

July 13, 2024 - August 17, 2024

Good grief as a football that flips the body over and we laugh but our tailbone hurts and there’s probably a bruise that might last all summer. Our hearts hurt too with changing tides and shifts in who or what the future could be. We knew you were old and we knew I was sick but that doesn’t make it easy. We’ll think about the ground as a way to hold ourselves up but also burrow into for a while or for good. 

And how I’ll miss you and I miss me, but we’re moving forward because Ohio is a landlocked state and grief is the water aerobics that make our muscle tired, then strong, but our brains blurry. And if we keep waving our arms and dragging our one foot forward we could make it to the Great Lakes or even the ocean. Or make it to Dayton where we jump into a Wright Brothers’ plane to float (or crash) to a funky beat and changing sun.

We saw you wave from a parking lot far below but when we looked back you were gone. But don’t worry. Some grief makes the air so thick that the chaotic landing is in slow motion, with time to cry, then laugh, then Google that song we can’t remember, then make some prints, then make a friend, then put on a show, then fix the motor, then find a big field, then move so fast, then try again. 

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Morgan Strahorn and Chantal Wnuk are artists based in Ohio. Good Grief is an exhibition of solo work made while in residence at Columbus Printed Arts Center this spring.

Exhibition documentation by Luke Stettner.