An Urn is Intimate
Designed with Fabian Ong Project Brief:
to re-interpret the essence of an urn in today’s context where they are often placed into niches in a columbarium.
How might we...- translate the yearning for greater meaning to traditional tomb-sweeping practices to a more tangible connection to loved ones? - leverage on marble’s innate properties of imbuing meaningful gestures to outdated traditions?
︎ Duration: 13 weeks
Year: 2015
to re-interpret the essence of an urn in today’s context where they are often placed into niches in a columbarium.
How might we...- translate the yearning for greater meaning to traditional tomb-sweeping practices to a more tangible connection to loved ones? - leverage on marble’s innate properties of imbuing meaningful gestures to outdated traditions?
︎ Duration: 13 weeks
Year: 2015
Collaborator:
Nirvana Memorial Garden (Singapore)
Professor/ Curator:
Hans Tan
Nirvana Memorial Garden (Singapore)
Professor/ Curator:
Hans Tan
We can stay in the comforts of our home to reminiscence about the deceased, however we yearn for a less vicarious experience.
Thus, an urn is intimate. Only when one cleans the empty plaque with water, the faces and names appear ephemerally. And slowly the water markings created fades away as one pays their respects.
It is inconspicuous, viewable upon an act of intimacy and care, so that visitation can be personal in a public space.
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