A photographic meditation on heartbreak, resilience, and finding refuge in the natural world.

In this intimate artist's book, Lisa Harden, also known as LAH /ehl-uh/, weaves together nature photography, poetry, and personal reflection to create a visual journal of survival and renewal. Using the rare technique of Polaroid emulsion lifts - a delicate hands-on process where instant film is transformed into dreamlike painterly images - she invites readers into her creative sanctuary where art becomes a path toward healing.

Born from a season of profound loss - divorce, isolation, and heartbreak - Auroras and Sad Prose is an honest reckoning with grief and an act of faith in beauty's enduring presence. Each image is paired with fragments of poetry and lyrics from Emily Dickinson, Taylor Swift, and others who offered solace when words failed, alongside Harden's own journal entries that trace the slow, tender work of putting oneself back together.

This is not a book about arriving at wholeness. It's about showing up in the woods with a camera and a broken heart. It's about the meditative ritual of lifting fragile emulsion from water and learning that imperfection can be part of the story. It's about remembering that nature asks nothing of us but our presence - and sometimes that's enough.

For anyone who has ever needed art to heal, Auroras and Sad Prose is a gentle companion, a quiet permission to feel, and a reminder that we are never alone in the landscape of our grief.