November was a three part installation created within Mourning’s art studio in the historic design district of San Francisco. November highlights a collection of thirteen works in photography, film, mixed media and site-specific sculpture. This work highlights the artist’s vast shift in psyche from 2005 to present. Symbolically structured into three rooms, Mourning considers human natures’ vacillation between the mind, body and spirit.  

Room I contains two large-scale photographs taken in Marks, Mississippi and a Super 8 film entitled Memories of a Pleasant Visit. Mourning places herself in the position of her maternal and paternal grandmothers honoring the importance in her rememberance of ancestry. Enforced by a room painted deep aubergine and adorned with a re-configured heirloom crystal chandelier, The veil between the physical and supernatural becomes hauntingly thin. 

In Room II, Mourning uses disparate media to explore her body as related to traditional roles of sex, class, and religion while facing her Irish lineage and the spirits which have haunted her. Infinitely Comforting, a polyptych photograph, shows the artist upside down with opaque skin in a vintage blue dress, recalling the crucifixion, interpretations of the roles of women, and the paradigm shift women and men are currently facing. Included are two sixty-inch kaleidoscopic circular gems photographed and painted with acrylic entitled Death as Awakening and The Seduction. A stop animation film, Exorcism in Indigo Rhapsody plays on the eastern facing wall. 

Room III questions connection with God, ones’ Soul and the material world. The Divine Feminine looms over this space featuring Compass Rose, a sculpture compiled of hundreds of pieces of shattered mirror and Falling Star, a four piece photograph of a mirror facing the sun which creates a startling similarity to phases of the moon. Enlightenment,a self-portrait photograph of the artist climbing a mosaic meditation dome in India is of Mourning positioning herself as her uncle who chooses to live in silent meditation as a monk in the Himalayas over the last twenty years. Each piece of the mosaic is painted in gold leaf which slowly fades into white.