Object Cemetery is an installation designed to lead people through the experience of sacrificing a physical personal object for the sake of immortalizing its meaning. The cemetery holds the physical remain of objects with no function, with a virtual layer of stories, moments and feelings documented for the future.
Apparently, some sort of ceremony took place in the lost city of venice. evidence put together from around the world suggests that people used to come to the city to immortalize their personal objects.
"My James,
I finally took our wedding ring off. It is now compressed into a micro gold cube. I left it there, at the object cemetery.
I shed no tears, and whispered my message: "I love you forever, I love you forever, I Love you forever". I then placed the ring on the compressor, and stepped behind the controls. I pulled down the handle. It was heavy, and massive it felt as if i was squeezing flesh. I tried to think of our life together. I got nothing. I could not even see your face. When the noise stopped, I received the little golden cube and placed it next to all the other cubes.
Though it was my moment, mine only, i share this last memory of us with you.
be well,
Marian"
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