Afterlife

The artwork itself is a record of the mourning process and facing the mortality. We don’t have yet an established ritual to say goodbye to non-human beings in our culture. So I had to invent one.

The installation is made of a kaleidoscope, placed above a rotating glass vessel, where ashes of my closest one were placed. It is accompanied by a projection of recorded view from the inside of the kaleidoscope.

The experience of this work takes place through three possible paths: observing bare, posthumous tissue placed in the installation, playing with tissue through a kaleidoscope or watching the processed projection image from the distance. Description of those paths is an integral part of instalation.

Watching is accompanied by the sound of rattling bone fragments, pouring out in a glass drum. It is important to feel their organic nature in contrast to the ordered, geometric fractality of multiplied reflections. And to remember playful, happy moments that we spent with those we love, when we have fun with the the kaleidoscope.