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《To-Go Box》 2024
11.125"x9"x12.25"
Ash and oak, maple dowel, various objects
The purpose of the “To-Go” Box is that you take it with you when you find out you’re dying: it contains the things you enjoyed most in life—so you have the opportunity to enjoy them one last time. Often funerals are for the living; needless processes for the sake of appearances that do little for those who are gone. To-Go Box creates a modern ritual that serves as a quiet and respectable conclusion—and while it doesn’t attempt to deny the consumerist mindset we can’t seem to shake, it leaves itself open to merge with personal taste. Death is often a taboo subject in many ways—this piece allows one to find comfort in pastimes and objects ahead of the final unknown in life.
Ash and oak, maple dowel, various objects
The purpose of the “To-Go” Box is that you take it with you when you find out you’re dying: it contains the things you enjoyed most in life—so you have the opportunity to enjoy them one last time. Often funerals are for the living; needless processes for the sake of appearances that do little for those who are gone. To-Go Box creates a modern ritual that serves as a quiet and respectable conclusion—and while it doesn’t attempt to deny the consumerist mindset we can’t seem to shake, it leaves itself open to merge with personal taste. Death is often a taboo subject in many ways—this piece allows one to find comfort in pastimes and objects ahead of the final unknown in life.