Negative Space (2014-?) is an experimental documentary and performance art film, made in the aftermath of my father’s death.

My dad became an amputee in his early twenties after stepping on a mine during his military service. I knew him all of my life with a prosthetic leg. After his death, I could not find his leg. The unfinished film documents the journey I set out on, to find my father’s missing leg, the part left of his body, tracing back the different sites he was in as he was dying.

A raw effort at coping with deep loss, the film and accompanying journal text touch on the way we process grief, the embodied experience of loss and my relationship to my father’s body as well as my own, questions of sanctifying, fetishizing and other formed relations to objects left behind after loss, the possibility of art and the bureaucracy of death.