The Memento Mori: Reimagined

Memento Mori Reimagined is a communal ritual and photographic experience inviting participants to meet death with presence and care. This gathering brings together a guided grief and death meditation, a collective oracle reading, and a shared tea ceremony, offering time to arrive, settle, and prepare the body and spirit before entering the photographic process. Together, we pause and make space for the understanding that all things have a natural conclusion, and that this truth can be held with tenderness.

Participants will take part in a Victorian-era, inspired photographic session, drawing from historical post-mortem portraiture to create a symbolic ‘death portrait.’ These images are not about literal death, but about marking transformation: the release of identities, relationships, life chapters, or versions of the self that have already completed their passage. This is also a space for those seeking a safe place to face their own mortality. Flowers, props, and set materials will be provided, and participants are encouraged to bring personal objects, textiles, or symbols that feel connected to what they are honoring and/or letting go of.

During the session, participants will have the opportunity to develop their own portrait in a portable darkroom, witnessing the image surface slowly from darkness into form. This process mirrors the nature of grief and remembrance which is a deeply personal and unique experience.

This gathering is for those who feel called to

• Recognize a loss, transition, or personal passage

• Explore mortality through rituals, art, and shared presence

• Use art as a way to witness, reflect, and honor

• Create images that hold memory, impermanence, and care

• Be together in a supportive circle for reflection and connection