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