Flowers For Linda is an artist-led listening practice on grief & creativity.

It unfolds through long-form conversations with artists, writers, and cultural workers that hold loss, lineage, and the ways meaning gathers around absence, moving with the rhythm of thought.

Most Recent Episode

How to Collaborate with a Ghost with Chelsea Granger—multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, and curator of visual medicine.

We open episode 2 of season 3 with a hand-picked bouquet for the beloved dead, inspired by Chelsea’s painting in her gorgeous and comforting book on grief, death and joy, So Many Ways to Draw A Ghost. 

In this conversation, Chelsea shares, with sweetness, levity and frank engagement, the many ways she collaborates with her mother through the veil. We dive into the “boring magic” of a suburban psychic medium, the inheritance of a generational bipolar diagnosis, and the complicated, beautiful friction of the mother-daughter bond.

We also reflect on the deep wealth found in the chosen family that taught Chelsea how to become a companion to the bereaved, and the shifts in her vision, and her art, after her own great losses.

A note on the pace: These episodes are intended for slow listening. Carry them with you on a long walk, through a restless night, or on the road. This project is about the practice of living creatively alongside grief. 

All episodes are available on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts.

Past Episodes

Season 3

Choosing How to Live with Chopp Stewart

Season 2

Singing With Roberta with Honey Larochelle
A Novel for Junior with Alejandro Heredia
The Ecstasy Of Grief with Katrina Goldsaito
Chasing the Uncanny with Cavalier
Fred’s Miraculous Second Act with Boyuan Gao
What Happened At the Cedar Lodge? with Maya Meissner
Fake Flowers Last Forever with Sam Sellers

Season 1

Still Mama Phife with Cheryl Boyce Taylor
A Ritual is a Container with Caroline Rothstein
The Dead Parents Club with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Drop the Performance of Artist to Live Life as Art with Caits Meissner
I Am Enough with Maya Azucena

About the Project

Flowers for Linda began as a way of staying close to grief without needing to resolve it.

Decidedly not about advice or recovery, Flowers for Linda is a place to sit, listen, and remain with what continues after death. The project takes the form of long, unstructured conversations with artists, writers, and cultural workers. Each conversation is shaped through listening as a practice of care, accompaniment, and presence. Editing is minimal and intentional, preserving breath, silence, and unfinished ideas. Episodes are released intermittently, following the rhythm of the work rather than a fixed schedule.

The project is named in honor of Linda, the artist’s mother, a gardener and social worker. Flowers arrangements are made for each guest as part of the practice. These conversations are offerings.

Contact

If you’d like to get in touch, share a response, or inquire about the project, you can reach me here.

This project is led by artist Caits Meissner.