Graves
The Obelisk Mourner
Grief, carved leaning against a monument.
The obelisk came out of Egypt by way of the Victorians — a stone finger pointed at the sky, meaning the person below had gone up and out, not just down and under.
What makes this one mine is the mourner carved against it, leaning her whole weight on the stone. Whoever commissioned it understood the assignment: the monument stands for the dead, and this figure stands for everyone left behind.