Hey- how about a little more brightness in cemeteries?
Holy Sepulchre Cemetey, Rochester, NY
It’s Springtime, after all….
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
Bright. Green. Alive….
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA
…A perfect time for fresh memoria
Japanese cemetery memoria
A new year begins, near the ones we love.
How about…
We come bearing rememberances for our loved ones…
We walk through a gate…
And through a beautiful springtime transition…
To come upon those we wish to visit…
How different our stories can be from most of what is pre-packaged as our experience.
Murou Art Forest, Nara, Japan
A place: when and where we enter and where we go to remember….
Leading us maybe to a memorial “plaza” with ashes:
Cherry Blossom Garden, outside Tokyo
…and maybe a place to rest, a bit away:
Tamina Thermal Baths, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
…and we can re-engage in a shared, inspired space:
Reunification Monument, Yaounde, Cameroon
…as we exit, we might walk alongside beautiful green columbarium walls:
…another possible design for a “living” columbarium:
Office Building moss garden, Tokyo
The ideas and thoughts are here: we can have all the modern thinking about urban environments applied directly to memorial spaces. The thinking is about creating and enhancing environmental experience, personal experience. There is a dearth of that now: we need more, and right away. There are many exciting choices to come!
