Redacted Absence: (The Storm Does Pass) // (From Soup to Nuts) explores grief through a multidisciplinary lens. The word "redacted" typically refers to the act of censoring or obscuring information, often seen in documents where certain details are blacked out. When applied to visual art and the overarching theme of grief, it suggests that the emotional experience of loss can be fragmented, hidden, or partially erased—a reflection of how the artists have and do struggle with or feel the need to hide parts of their grief from others or even from themselves.

Throughout the show, the artists use various material languages to explore, distort, cover, obscure, abstract, repeat, and define these qualities of grief as a working concept for their respective practices. 

Absence conveys the tangible void left by loss—the empty spaces, the routines left unfilled, the silence where a loved one once was. It speaks to the emotional weight of grief and the physical spaces that feel altered in their absence. There is a liminal nature to grief; because Absence also points to a potential that emerges from this vacancy: a space that invites reflection, memory, and even transformation and joy. 

By pairing it with "redacted," the title of this dual show intends to speak on the complexity of grief—how it's not only about what is lost but also about what is suppressed, abstracted, altered, or obscured in memory and experience. It raises the question: what does it mean to carry a loss that is both present and concealed?

In this show, "Redacted Absence"  signifies the artists’ exploration of grief not just as an overt feeling but as a hidden landscape where memories fade, emotions are edited, and the reality of loss is revisited, repeatedly, and sometimes incompletely or indirectly. By engaging with this theme, artists Sarah Moody and Alex Anthes attempt to reveal how grief can feel counterpoint, and dance between remembering and obscuring, holding on and letting go. This title underscores an understanding of grief as something both intensely personal and selectively shared, inviting viewers to consider how grief shapes and shifts one’s internal world and the inescapable truth that nothing lasts forever.