- CEMETORY HARBOUR -
I declared,‘Life without freedom is impossible’ . Franz Kafka looked at me, as if to say, ‘Gently, gently,’ smiled sadly and said: ‘That sounds so convincing that we almost believe it. In fact, things are more difficult. Freedom is life. Lack of liberty is death. But death is just as much as a reality as life. And that is precisely the difficulty: that we are exposed to both- to life as well as death.’
We live in circulation. Just like ‘Ascending and Descending’ , in which lines of people ascend and descend roofs in an infinite loop. In the era of instrumental rationality, any attempt to see life as a possess with great or precise purpose and fruitful ending will be in vain.What exactly is death? Every time I tried to figure out or imagine it, I failed, because any answer would finally be beat down by itself. The only thing people can do to death is mourning.
Firstly, I realised that curve can bring people with a sense of aliveness, especially when people are inside it. Secondly, ‘death deserves no mention’, bodies go with the nature. Natural light and terrain themselves embody certain cultural meaning about life and death. This cemetery design provides a changing space where one can walk, stay, explore and experience the feeling to be pure in life, suggesting that life is returning into an infinite process of the world.
The straight line belongs to man, the curve to God. (Antoni Gaudi i Cornet)
