Antim - meaning the last step
This Cremation Urn is conceptualized as an attempt to redesign the ritual of last rite after cremation with the context of Indian diaspora in other parts of the world.
Ashes are collected after the cremation in the terracota urn and suspended through the ceiling piece . The Receiving bowl is filled with water from Ganga and the spout at the bottom of the urn is released enabling the dispersal of ashes in river ganga. This symbolizes release of spirit and passing over to another world at the same time creates a beautiful poetic performance leading to transcendance.
This last porcelain piece in terms of materiality and semiotics serves as permanent piece and stays as a serene memory of the deceased.
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Cremation Urn
Cremation represents the Last Rite, major event in a Person’s life.
Cremation Urns in Eastern culture and treated as not mere objects that encapsulate the last remains but as sacred instruments of passing into after life and letting the soul free from earthly bounding.
Ironically, the form is given least importance and the process of which the form is important part is more crucial.
I want to experiment with the idea of reimagining the act of dispersal of ashes in which the form plays an important role and let the uncomfortable process transcend into a visceral experience .
Urn is a poetic piece in the process that metaphorically represents passing into another form.