Grief is an intensely personal and spiritual exercise in coming to terms with the harshness of the death of a soul-mate.

The howls and the whimpers, the cries and the silences, the daydreams and the realities of sorrow constantly shift places and metamorphize.

The whispers of a partner's presence always survive.

The photographs consider our perception when we lose a loved one, and how the world no longer looks quite the same.  The series echoes the feelings of loss, disorientation, sadness and longing that remembrance of the absent person can bring.

All images were originally created on 2-1/4 black and white negatives, scanned to photocd, computer manipulated and output back to film.  Prints are on archival fiber-based photographic paper and are selenium toned. Image sizes range from 5 x 3-5/8 to 5 x 5 inches, archivally matted on 11 x 14.  The haiku have been impressed directly onto the mats.

Dark Moon is also hand made book showing a passage of grief. Its 29 pages include 18 photographs by Audra printed on watercolor paper and 8 haiku poems printed on vellum. The haiku is from the tenth century by Izumi Shikibu, and translated by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani. The book is bound with leather bands, wrapped in hand made paper, and secured together with another leather band.