Words, Image, Playlist By Tracie Noles-Ross

In the summer of 2023, I took a roadtrip into the Blue Ridge Mountains for an Artist Residency in the Pisgah National Forest. It was the first time I’d left home or really even been alone since my husband died of cancer in the fall of 2021. I made 3 playlists to listen to while working in my solitary cabin in the woods. This is the first. I call it my Undone in Sorrow Playlist, named for the Ola Belle Reed song. 

I had a hard time sitting alone with my grief in that little cabin in the woods. The music helped.

Tracie Noles-Ross is a multidisciplinary visual artist and storyteller living and working in Birmingham, Alabama. She is a member of the Ground Floor Contemporary Artist co-operative, the PaperWorkers Local artist co-operative and the Alabama Women’s Caucus of Art. Noles-Ross is a recipient of the 2022-2023 Individual Artist Fellowship from Alabama State Council on the Arts. She holds a B.A. from the University of Alabama in Birmingham with a concentration in Visual Arts and Creative Writing. See more of her work at tracienolesross.com on Instagram at @tracie.noles.rossand at This, That, and the Other.