"Ozark Grief" Jordan Murdock-Thompson

An Ozark Grief, 2025

Ink and watercolor

13.5 x 18”

$525.00

This piece is based on the folktale Rawhead and Bloody Bones, a tale with many variations across the Ozarks and Appalachia. While the ghost story usually focuses on a large boar and a hunter, this piece focuses on the elderly woman at the center of the tale. She clings to her companion, the boar, in a storm of healing herbs and invasive vines, unwilling to give in to the isolation thrust on her by age and her position within her community.