Dying for Miami
with critics Steven Harris and Marta Justo Caldeira
with critics Steven Harris and Marta Justo Caldeira
“I would want to be buried here...in the water, on the bay, next to the cocktail bar”
-critic commentary from final reviews
The typical thing you say to someone who has lost a loved one in China is “节哀顺变” - it literally means to control your grief and to go along with changes.
It may sound callous and insensitive, but characterizes our best hopes for those who are still living, that they may make it through grief and come to terms as expediently as possible.
It may sound callous and insensitive, but characterizes our best hopes for those who are still living, that they may make it through grief and come to terms as expediently as possible.
It is in this spirit of forcibly separating the living and the dead that my cemetary is conceived. This tidal columbarium is situated on the ocean floor of a shallow part of the bay. Visitors are able to find and visit only during low tide, when the graves become visible. As the tide follows a lunar logic, visitation hours change daily, further limiting ease of access.
It is through these manipulations that realm of the living and that of the departed are separate, but with fleeting moments of
intersection, progressing on divergent but regularly coinciding paths.
