Dead Flowers For Bev - 2021 - A film about my grandmother passing due to COVID and me coming home to see her grave. - Originally constructed as an essayistic eulogy for my grandmother, I created this piece through a need to create an obituary more fitting to her life. Due to COVID I was unable to physically be there for her funeral and generate closure about her passing. So, nearly a year later, I decided to come home to Galesburg, IL, and examine what remains I could find about her life and to make an obituary film. —- Shot, Edited, Narrated, & Directed by Cody Tracy.

Images from my installation of the film — the blue tarps represent a small midwestern funeral during winter, I attempted to recreate a funerary piece to showcase what it may have felt like in the actual funeral tent that I was unable to attend. This install was an examination for the site of where we traditionally lay our dead in the midwest. Outside view of the piece, viewers and participants had no indication as to what they were walking into.