The Bronze Mourner

The old cemeteries are full of figures like this one — bronze mourners cast to stand in for the families, grieving on their behalf long after everyone who actually grieved was gone. The Victorians believed a monument should do the weeping for you, and they were mostly right.

I photograph them because they never stopped working. A hundred years of rain and nobody ever told them to quit. That is a kind of loyalty you don't see much anymore.

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