Memory

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Phillipa Yeats

Memory of Objects or Experiences, Preserving for the Future Formative Assessment


Preserve Object

Preservation

Preserve Text Preserve Image Preserve Event Preserve Life


physical human body Cryopreserva/on
 Freeze
Drying

Burial

Crema/on
 Ashes

tomb
 Natural/Organic
 mummies

Grave
 Sca9ered

Kept
in
Urn


In Durban, South Africa, because of the AIDS pandemic the number of funerals per weekend has risen from 150 to over 600 with most of the dead between the age of 18-30. Pressure on cities to keep up with graveyard demands is increasing and at huge expense. A new graveyard will cost ± R1,25 million and will only last a total of 3.5 years. Wines,
M.
2004.
South
Africa
Recycles
Graves
for
AIDS
vic/ms
in
Durban
Journal
[Online].


Vertical Gravesites


Layered Gravesites

Durban
Debates
Recycling
Graves.
 www.news24.com


Graveyard buildings Because of space constraints in many big cities, the city councils are considering buildings graveyard building as the price for land becomes greater and greater.

The Durban Journal [Online]


Create a green wall for the graveyard building to create something beautiful and living out of the dead.



Direction 2: Create a living patchwork garden of the dead so that the cemetery becomes a living celebration of the people that have passed away and the space between graves becomes insignificant because their close proximity to one another adds value. Use a system of symbolic plants that reveal details about the people that have been buried there. This could be different plants for race, religion, age and gender.


Traditional graveyard burials that have gravestones made of concrete or another permanent materials or tombs that are fortified with concrete are both resource intensive and have an extremely negative impact on the environment. `1 


Because of international state of eco-awareness, ecofriendly funerals and burials are starting to become popular.


Eco-burial Sites around London Aldersbrook Road Cemetry, Newham Brockley Cemetry, Lewisham Carpenters Park, Alperton East Sheen Cemetry, Twickenham Nunhead Cemetry, Brenchley Gardens Nutfield Parish Cemetry, Redhill, Surrey Woodlands Burial Ground, West Drayton Cemetry, Uxbridge Woodwells Cemetry, Hemel Hemstead (www.naturaldeath.org.uk)


(www.foreverfernwood.com) 



Soul Ash Solace Maximal Design Made from lightweight, ecofriendly cardboard, wood and paper maché. Stainless steel urn in an ‘hourglass’ shape to symbolize that time heals all wounds. The urn withstands the heat from the burning process and gains a uniquely coloured patina from the flames. www.worldchanging.com


Bios Urn Martin Ruiz de Azua & Gerard Moline Container for cremated ashes made from compacted coconut shells, organic fertilizer and tree seedlings. As the container biodegrades, a seed with sprout, recycling the person back into the circle of life. www.worldchanging.com 


Capsula Mundi Anna Citelli & Raoul Bretzel Egg shaped container made of bioplastic. The body of the deceased lies in a fetal position within this capsule, which gets planted into the earth like a bulb. A shallow circular depression is dug above the capsule to symbolize the presence of a body, in the centre of which a tree is planted. Over time, the groups of burial sites become a sacred memorial grove. www.capsulamundi.it

www.worldchanging.com 


How could you get a tree to tell someone’s history?


Trauma/c
car
crash

First
kiss
 1st
Birthday

30
birthday

Start
school

Wedding


Malcolm Dare Lucid Depictions 11 & 12




Rest in Piece Phillip Yeats 1988-?


System of patterns that function and tell the story of your life. Either with symbolic shapes and meaning or a continual piece of artwork that you create throughout your life. Perhaps a patchwork of memories of your life. 




Hilde de Decker


Axel Erlandson shaped trees – he pruned, bent, and grafted trees into fantastic shapes and called them “Circus Trees.” For example, to make this “Basket Tree”

arborsculpture, Erlandson planted six sycamore trees in a circle and then grafted them together to form the diamond patterns.

www.amazingdata.com



Direction 1: To promote natural burials as a way of returning our chemical nutrients back into the earth. But find a visual way of identifying who has been buried by a system of patterns on trees or patterns of trees.


James Auger & Jimmy Loizeau

Afterlife Project (2009) “Afterlife offers a technologically mediated service providing a tangible expression of life after death. The Afterlife device intervenes during this process to harness the chemical potential and convert it into usable electrical energy via a microbial fuel cell - a device that uses an electrochemical reaction to generate electricity from organic matter. This electricity is contained within a familiar dry cell battery.�

www.auger-loizeau.com


Tim
O’Brien

James
Schulze

Louisa
Loizeau

James
Auger

Dunne
&
Raby

Noam
Toran

Onkar
Kular


Ashes to Diamonds


Biopresence is an art venture formed by Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel with the purpose of exploring, participating and ultimately defining the most relevant playing field of the 21st century: the impact of biotechnologies on society and the human perception of these coming changes. Biopresence creates Human DNA trees by transcoding the essence of a human being within the DNA of a tree in order to create "Living Memorials" or "Transgenic Tombstones". Biopresence is collaborating with scientist and artist Joe Davis on his DNA Manifold algorithm, which allows for the transcoding and entwinement of human and tree DNAs. The Manifold method is based on the naturally occurring silent mutations of base triplets, this means it is possible to store information without affecting the genes of the resulting tree.


If you could reincarnate into a living thing what would you wish to become? If you could be reincarnated into a living object what would you choose to become? Marko

Steph

Clare Chisato

Jenny Jenny

Ruby

Sam

Chase Chase

Harry

Sarah

Catherine

Gabriela

Lisa


Paola (24) “Water- because I have a kind of connection to it, I love how it feels when I am near to water (the sand, the taste, the flavour) the refreshing and freedom experience.”

Robyn (23) “An Acacia Tree- It is beautiful, bark has a nice texture and it is African.”

Gabriela (25) “A Flower- because a flower can be appreciated even after it is dry.”

Malwina “Orange Tree- my grandfather used to have one in his garden.”

Paul (55) “Any planet- to offset existential dread.”

Angelo (23) Jacaranda Tree-I'd come back a jacaranda, conjures up so many memories of childhood for me. When they're in bloom and the purple flowers litter the street that I live on... That's a warm fuzzy feeling I get inside :)


Monica – Cat “Because they are the most intriguing and at the same time beautiful and social (in their own way) creatures”


Paola- Water “I would like to be water because I kind of have a connection with it, I love how it feels when I am near it (the sand, the taste, the flavour) the refreshing and freedom experience.�


Pippa- Tree “Trees are symbols of the living and the growing, the nourishing and the giving. In my next life if I could be a tree I would not only be a part of the natural world but I would have a symbiotic relationship with the earth… something that I have many internal struggles with as a human.”


Stephanie- Elephant “Elephants are so big and powerful yet so gentle. I rode an elephant in Thailand and I felt a connection with the elephant.�


Direction 3: Photograph people as what living thing they wish to be in their next life. Use the photography to force people to question the ethical issues around the topic of reincarnation as something that may essentially be possible with modern science in the near future. To question how this would effect the notion of the preservation of a human life.


Thank you!


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