RISD Senior Show 2020

RISD Senior Show 2020

coffin

Hillary
Brame

What evolved into this thesis started over a year ago as a research project. I was interested in green burial, a modern grassroots movement to bury people in a more environmentally friendly way, far more environmentally friendly than conventional burial or cremation. After understanding more about the American funeral industry and our society’s culture of death and dying, I became more interested in other sites of intervention- the most important being death care. Death care can be defined as the physical and emotional care given to a dying person, as well as the care after they’re dead such (as preparing the body for burial.) Death care has radically changed in the last 150 years from family- and community- based to funeral home- and hospital- based.

coffin

Pet Coffin

Pine, linen, cotton
14" x 19.5" x 6.5"

Pet ownership has changed, and people have begun to pay more for their pets’ death care. This product aims to shape the developing pet funeral market. The long term goal of this project is to introduce a similar human coffin and remake the American burial paradigm to be more religiously inclusive, environmentally friendly, and focused around an acceptance of death.

coffin

Pet Coffin

Pine, linen, cotton
14" x 19.5" x 6.5"

Pet ownership has changed, and people have begun to pay more for their pets’ death care. This product aims to shape the developing pet funeral market. The long term goal of this project is to introduce a similar human coffin and remake the American burial paradigm to be more religiously inclusive, environmentally friendly, and focused around an acceptance of death.

coffin

Pet Coffin

Pine, linen, cotton
14" x 19.5" x 6.5"

Pet ownership has changed, and people have begun to pay more for their pets’ death care. This product aims to shape the developing pet funeral market. The long term goal of this project is to introduce a similar human coffin and remake the American burial paradigm to be more religiously inclusive, environmentally friendly, and focused around an acceptance of death.

coffin

Pet Coffin

Pine, linen, cotton
14" x 19.5" x 6.5"

Pet ownership has changed, and people have begun to pay more for their pets’ death care. This product aims to shape the developing pet funeral market. The long term goal of this project is to introduce a similar human coffin and remake the American burial paradigm to be more religiously inclusive, environmentally friendly, and focused around an acceptance of death.

coffin

Pet Coffin

Pine, linen, cotton
14" x 19.5" x 6.5"

Pet ownership has changed, and people have begun to pay more for their pets’ death care. This product aims to shape the developing pet funeral market. The long term goal of this project is to introduce a similar human coffin and remake the American burial paradigm to be more religiously inclusive, environmentally friendly, and focused around an acceptance of death.

coffin

Pet Coffin

Pine, linen, cotton
14" x 19.5" x 6.5"

Pet ownership has changed, and people have begun to pay more for their pets’ death care. This product aims to shape the developing pet funeral market. The long term goal of this project is to introduce a similar human coffin and remake the American burial paradigm to be more religiously inclusive, environmentally friendly, and focused around an acceptance of death.

Work on paper

A Shroud for Bill T Jones

Paper, pastel
9" x 11"

This piece is in conversation with Bill T Jones' distinct relationship with death influenced by his blackness and queerness, based on his essay “Last Night on Earth” in conjunction with Christina Sharpe’s book The Wake. It is a memorial, something that touches on the experience but ultimately invites the viewer to bring their own memories and thoughts to the piece.

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