ABOUT DEATH
URNS
About Death is a design-specific work that addresses its own mortality, death and farewell in three parts. The criticism of today's approach to dying and repression of the topic from everyday life leads to the personal work and reflects on the perception of dying as a shapable last phase of life. Modern medicine has not only prolonged the dying process, dying processes can be more accurately anticipated through medical and professional research and care. The dying phase can be planned and shaped. Living and working environments are emerging that deal intensively with the topic of death and not only include the dying.
The urns address the realization of one's own personal finiteness and the individual preoccupation with death, even if it does not yet directly affect one. In the three-month work, an object that manifests one's own mortality is designed intuitively and process-oriented. The row of twenty urns becomes a symbol for the realization of one's own finitude and the preoccupation with death as an ongoing process.