Segomotsi

In story writing, characters and their creators share a symbiotic relationship. In protagonist Sienna, the story subconsciously, and then consciously, unravels forms of grieving and guides its players (author, character, reader) toward reconciliation with loss and self. ‘Segomotsi’ borrows from reality and the imagined, from the conscious and unconscious. I am applying the self as data in the ‘lived experience’ of studying my own grief (auto-ethnography) and that of Sienna’s (ethnography). In its study of grief, the story indicates there is no clean separation of author and reader. With the self as subject, cathartic narrative can be a starting point for viewing new worlds.