{"product_id":"let-the-mourners-come","title":"LET THE MOURNERS COME An all‑black canvas filled with sewn, faceless forms, LET THE MOURNERS COME evokes a quiet crowd of unseen mourners. A powerful mixed‑media work from the FUNERAL BLUES series exploring grief and collective presence.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeries:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eFuneral Blues\u003c\/em\u003e (first completed work; numbered 7 in sequence) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2026 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA deep, all‑black field holds a congregation of faces that emerge from the surface like a memory pressing through cloth. Each visage is individually modelled and stitched into place, their blankness refusing private grief and insisting instead on a communal, anonymous presence. The black floating frame isolates the work from its surroundings, turning the canvas into a void where mourning accumulates and the ordinary markers of expression are stripped away.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe piece stages absence as company: the sewn faces gather as unseen witnesses to a loss the viewer cannot enter, evoking the formal restraint and quiet devastation of Auden’s poem without illustration. Tactile and somber, the work asks the gallery to hold silence as a material—dense, layered, and inexorably human.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mixed media on stretched canvas; hand‑formed faces sewn into surface; black floating frame\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dean Crozier Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48229005951231,"sku":null,"price":790.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/4966\/8351\/files\/LETTHEMOURNERSCOME1.jpg?v=1772320982","url":"https:\/\/deancroziergallery.art\/products\/let-the-mourners-come","provider":"Dean Crozier Gallery ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}