2022 Spring Core Studio II STU 1211
Instructor: Craig Douglas
"The soil never sleeps. Never slips into ideology or nostalgia. It is place and purpose,
the perfection of decay."
the perfection of decay."
- Adam Horovitz, "The Soil Never Sleeps"
The land-forming configures the presence of the deceased, and the act of collective memorization occurs through an interplay of topography, circulation, and tree spacing. The topological rhythm of the dead offers a summation of lives lived and speaks to community, the connection to place, mortality, the afterlife, and the space in between. The rhythm of those who have passed on echoes through the very fabric of existence, reverberating alongside the pulse of the living as they move through the expanse of space. As the bodies pile and decay, the mounds also grow and compact, while the planting flourishes, obscuring and blurring the shape of the tomb. The design thus celebrates the fragility and impermanence of the human body and the process of natural succession.
