SUBLIME
Sublime is a project centered on both my
personal relationship with and fear of death
as well as concerns for the continued living
of the people that we leave behind in our
post-deaths. I approached this project as an
avenue toward the mitigation of stresses and
concerns I have surrounding the topic of
death, both intimately and in the larger
scope of friends, family, and community.
The resulting showcase is an arrangement that
I’ve taken to calling ‘the Tomb’, comprised of
two mourning chairs placed within the
confines of an unsealed mausoleum. The
two chairs — appropriately named Ghost and
Guest — stand side-by-side and facilitate
one-way communication between the guest,
occupying our current physical world, and the
ghost, who occupies the chair opposite the
guest and whose mausoleum the guest has
come to visit.
Envisioned and executed following my
own sensibilities, this project was an effort to
make death an increasingly approachable
topic while simultaneously retaining the
reverence befitting a concept as Sublime
as itself.
Emily Carr University BDes Capstone Project - 2023