Sentimientos congelados: análisis del proceso creativo como medio de expresión y aceptación del duelo y la pérdida de un ser querido

Abstract

This project addresses the experience of grief and loss from an autoethnographic perspective, framed within the modality of Research Through Creation (RTC). The creative process is used as a sensitive way to express, process, and reframe the emotions linked to the death of loved ones. Through the periodic collection of flower petals from my grandmothers' graves, a sculptural and installation piece was developed that integrates my body and organic matter as a symbolic and poetic presence of absence. The work seeks to reframe the symbolic use of flowers in funeral contexts, establishing an emotional link between bodily memory, grief, and contemporary artistic practices. From a poetic and psychomagical dimension, my creative process becomes a space for catharsis, acceptance, and reflection, both for me and for the viewer. The research proposes art as a device capable of transforming pain into an aesthetic experience, promoting a better empathetic understanding of grief as a non-linear, intimate, and permanent process.