NIGHT FOR ALL SOULS
An annual memorial celebration at Mountain View Cemetery. The site is filled with installations, candles, shrines and music in memory of those who have passed away.
Flying Boat
The boat is a universal symbol for transportation of the soul to the afterlife.
◄ Navigate
Installation with a boat suspended on a concrete wall in memory of my father.
The Sails
Four sails printed with images of ashes falling in water, accompanied by the words, Embark, Journey, Navigate and Passage
Ashes to Ashes
Photograph of cremated remains being released.
Breath
Breath; our first and our last, each one in between precious. Ice letters installed in fountain, high winds, warm temps and rain made for a very ephemeral piece.
H
Ice letter to test the candle illumination at night.
Breath, Day
Installed in the afternoon before the heavy rains and wind. Fountain turned off, hip waders needed. cold.
Friend
Ice letters installed in the cemetery at dusk before the public arrived. Dedicated to a dear friend who lost his life in a hiking accident.
Remember
The letters melted during the course of the evening and the public was invited to light a candle in memory of their special friends whom they wanted to remember.
Friends Forever
The melting of the ice is a gentle and poetic reminder of the transition from one state to another.