Daily Poetics

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

Link: Somersaults Life Archives.

Somersaults™ Life Archives
your life – full circle

"The genuine little details of everyday experiences when collected and curated add up to the eternal essence of our loved ones’ lives. Hand-me-down moments with the click of a shutter become frozen in time and our hearts. Sand between our toes. Tears of joy at the alter. That certain aroma from the back seat three days into the trip. The impossibly soft strip of satin on that tiny blanket. Fresh cut grass filling our every breath. The nervous first kiss and lingering last dance. Our dreams, loves, fears, triumphs and defeats captured in sights, sounds and words to be relived for generations. Somersaults™ Life Archives collects and protects all of your moments and memories in artfully produced products designed to make sure your loved ones’ lives come full circle." -somersaults

Design by Eric Kass, Funnel
Title Quote: Robert Aris Willmott

Requiem For You

Link: Requiem For You.
  the Spirit of a Memory

"REQUIEM FOR YOU is the lasting celebration of the person departing from this life, cast as a biographical concert. With REQUIEM FOR YOU, a culture which is concerned in a dignified way with death at the artistic level has been revived. Major composers, such as Mozart, Brahms, Verdi and Berlioz, have created everlasting works for posterity. They have produced musical memorials for themselves and others and hence made great persons immortal.

We create a musical memorial for your personality and, through modern patronage, promote the creation of musical works at the highest artistic level.

With LAUDATIO FOR YOU, we set a musical scene which is also biographically based, for milestones in life – birthday celebrations, company festivities, anniversaries…"

No change, no pause; no hope! Yes I endure.

Life Before Death at the Wellcome Collection | Society | guardian.co.uk.
via debbie millman

 

 

"Nothing, it is said, teaches us more about living
than dying. But if so, isn't it odd how little we face up to death? And
isn't it odd that modern societies, which appear so keen to find
meaning in the business of living, push death to the periphery,
minimising our contact with it and sanitising its impact?

The German photographer Walter Schels thinks it not only odd, but wrong that death is so hidden from view. Aged 72, he's also keenly aware that his own death is getting closer. Which is why, a few years ago, he embarked on a bizarre project. He decided to shoot a series of portraits of people both before and after they had died. The result is a collection of photographs of 24 people - ranging from a baby of 17 months to a man of 83 - that goes on show in London next week. Alongside the portraits are the stories of the individuals concerned, penned by Beate Lakotta, Schels' partner, who spent time with the subjects in their final days and who listened as they told her how it felt to be nearing the end of their lives......"

Title Quote: Shelley

No profit grows where no pleasure is taken; In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

Link: heli hietala.

The PROMISES are used as rings, but can also be disposed off by washing, burning, melting or breaking in pieces. None of these promises lasts forever. And as a lottery game, nothing is for sure.

 

The materials comply with the disposable way of thinking. The idea is based on commercial romanticism and one night stands.
The PROMISES were presented in the shape of lottery: the machine contained numbered balls and every ball contained a ring, a promise. -heli hietala

Title Quote: Shakespeare

The experience of the sacred is a repulsive experience. Or more accurately: revulsive. It is a casting out of the inner and secret, a showing of the entrails...It is a revelation of the hidden...

Link: Klimt02: deVille, Julia jewelry design unique handmade jewelry images jewelers.

"My jewellery is inspired by the Memento Mori jewellery of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and Victorian Mourning jewellery. I find the

acceptance of death in these periods fascinating.

I work predominately in traditional gold and silversmithing, combined with materials that were once living such as jet, a petrified wood historically used in Victorian Mourning jewellery, human hair and taxidermy. I use these materials as a Memento Mori, or reminder of our mortality.

I incorporate the symbols of death through out my work because I think it is important to identify with the concept that we are in fact, mortal creatures. The nature of our culture is to obsess over planning the future, however in doing so, we forget to enjoy the present.

I consider my taxidermy to be a celebration of life, a preservation of something beautiful. I feel strongly about the fair and just treatment of animals and to accentuate this point I use only animals that have died of natural causes." Julia deVille

Title Quote: Octavio Paz

Make your choice, adventurous stranger; Strike the bell and bide the danger, or wonder, till it drives you mad, what would have followed if you had...

Link: Maya Kini / Silver Organix.

Title Quote: C.S. Lewis

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

Link: goodbyes.
candles made from pictures of somethign or somebody dear to you.  You can say goodbye by burning the candle.

Vaarwelletjes (goodbye)
-Ilona Huvenaars

Title Quote: Jean Paul Richter

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. -henry s haskins

Link: Nadine Jarvis | projects.

do destroy ... "objects are trapped within the chemistry of the paper...You must set fire to the card to reveal a gift ..." nadine jarvis

Link: Nadine Jarvis | projects.

"Carbon Copies Pencils made from the carbon of human cremains. 240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash - a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind."

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. -DH Lawrence

Link: Cj O’Neill | Products | New Heirlooms.

 

"‘new heirlooms’ uses vintage ceramic pieces collected in charity shops in the UK and Denmark, overlaying them with hand cut and printed transfer patterns. Rejuvenating discarded objects with new patterns, and creating a collection of one off pieces, the story of these objects is continued, added to, highlighting the work of the charities involved, as well as creating links with our past, rekindling old memories and creating new ones."