The Burn (Work in Progress)

My house and all my belongings were recently destroyed by a fire, turning the site into something like an archaeological dig for my own life.

One morning, I got up to make coffee and smelled smoke. Minutes later, I was standing in the street in bare feet and pajamas, watching everything I had turn to ashes. This series, "The Burn," is a way of coming to terms with this loss. It resonates with psychologist William Worden’s “Four Tasks of Grief,” a framework for understanding how people journey through grief: (1) Accept the reality of what happened. (2) Feel the feelings. (3) Build a new life that includes the loss. (4) Build a new relationship with what you lost.