PHOTOGRAPH: PÅL HANSEN. HAIR AND MAKE-UP: CARL STANLEY
There’s a great opening scene in Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, in which we see row upon row of women in aprons and headscarves furiously polishing the headstones on their dead husbands’ graves. Even after death, work and life go on, it seems to tell us.
All of us will experiencelossat some point in our lives.Griefis a perfectly natural reaction to any form of loss, whetherbereavementitself or some other kind of ending: relationship breakdown, empty-nest syndrome or redundancy. Often, we don’t recognise that these changes invoke a psychological response akin to grief.