%0 Thesis %A MAHONEY, PAULA MAREE %D 2017 %T Using Photography as an Analogy in the Experience of Death and Mourning %U https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Using_Photography_as_an_Analogy_in_the_Experience_of_Death_and_Mourning/5016995 %R 10.4225/03/59223aadd103b %2 https://bridges.monash.edu/ndownloader/files/8492981 %K Death %K Art %K Photography %K Mourning %K Lamentation %K Analogy %K Mortality %X This research project uses photography as an analogy to look at death and lament from a non-Christian perspective. Where religion sees death as infinite, transcendence from the limits of mortality, in a largely secular society such as Australia, death is the ultimate limit. I examine the arbitrariness of death, and then the personal loss of my father. I then investigate my relationship to death and my mortality, whilst using lamentation in my performative photographs. %I Monash University