Framing Cycles

Two and a half weeks into January, 14 deaths have occurred on site, rendering funerals, a supposed transient event into a seemingly permanent one due to its high frequency. My community museum is hypothesized to break the social taboo of death, celebrate life and envision a warmer way of send-off for the dead.

The idea of a box-in-a-box strategy creates a gradual change in domains without the use of distinct boundaries, presenting the possibilities of infinite nesting and the flexibility to house programs of different scales (exhibitions, workshops, sensorial garden, funerals) in a single space. The concept of time, central to spatial arrangement, brings together the idea of programmatic frequency, routines, surprises, irregularity and flowering schedule of plants to combine hard and soft scapes to shape the human experience. Choice of flowers as the printmaking material contrasts the permanence of printmaking against the impermanence of life, tying programmatic visions nicely with the printmaking aspect.