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‘I Remember’ is a collective biography of grief and loss in the 21st century. It is a collaboration, a narrative landscape, an evolving archive, a scrolling poem.
What are you losing? How are you grieving? What do you remember? Who have you lost?
This site is collecting memories and imaginaries for us all.
Please add yours.
I would be immensely grateful for contributions on death and grief in the time of Covid-19, especially by patients, their loved ones, medical professionals and key workers.
The I Remember site is part of Grief – A Work in Progress, a series of audience participatory interventions that explore, record and archive the anatomy of loss in the 21st century.
the first flat we lived in together and how happy we were. The things we did before we had children: watching Newcastle play, arty farty films, Chekhov plays. We thought we were pretty cool.
cocktails in the Shard to forget about the latest relapse. Crying on the train, tube and bus, anywhere but home because I didn't want our babies to see me cry.
his final breath. Trying to clean lung fluid off my wedding ring. Deciding to only live in the present, here and now - the future too scary and uncertain.
the day I met you, I wrote my phone number down and gave it to you. You screwed it into a ball and threw it over your shoulder, it made me laugh. When I saw you again, you had the paper in your wallet.