Dust In The Wind is a bioresin cinerarium tacking the taboo of post mortem inceneration in the Midde East, specifically in Lebanon. After my mother passed away, I Iearnt of this absurd Lebanese law forbidding incineration (mainly due to the fact that state and religion are one governing entity).
Years later I tackled this unresolved baggage through Sawaya and Moroni's "Design In Times of Crisis" themed exhibit in Salone satellite during Milan's Design week in 2010.
"Dust In The Wind" would be a poetic twist to traditionally morbid cemeteries where the deceased are out of sight, and hence out of mind. The cinerarium would be a vertical module based wall of bio-resin "bricks", each wielding the suspended ashes of the deceased's cremated remains in crystal bio-resin.
The block modules stack up vertically upon one another through grooves and support indentations, to form a modern urban cemetery in which the incinerated ashes are cast into the bio-resin mold at the center of each unit in galactic swirls and nebular formations along with colored sands of choice, in objection to the customs of sealing ashes out of sight.
The transparency serves as a direct window into the deceased's physical remains, into the soul of a lost one, into the universe hidden within each and every one of us - thus shifting a sociological taboo as well as strengthening post-mortem bonds.
"Dust In The Wind" gives the impression the deceased are still amongst us... suspended in both time and space.
