Calvary

Calvary Cemetery 2007

Gloucester has lost over 11,000 of her sons to the North Atlantic. Calvary is where most of the Gloucester Sicilian and Portuguese fishermen and their families are buried, my relatives among them. These prints focus on the children, grandchildren and even great grandchildren of these men and their interactions with death. This is one of the most expressive cemeteries in New England. The set of prints is a document which looks at the way people are living as well as how they feel about family, religion and the afterlife, what they have valued and their notions of love and caring. This has a lot to say about the psychology of mankind.