A Ritual for Remembrance.
A Digital Ofrenda.
A Virtual Museum.
Refrigerator Reliquary is a project about how ordinary items become sacred when someone we love dies, asking the impossible question of what to do with those items now that the person they belonged to is gone.
This project is about sharing stories of how we mourn through the lens of the little things left behind.
Sharing Stories
Sharing stories when someone dies can ease the sharp edges of grief. It feels universal, wanting to be known, to be remembered, to not fade away. Saying someone’s name after they die, recalling their favorite song, it etches them into the collective memory, and it helps solidify them in our own recollections.
Refrigerator Reliquary is concerned primarily with objects.
Not things you find in a last will and testament, more like the bric-a-brac found in pockets and car consoles, between pages of books and taped to refrigerator doors.
Things you might throw away, but instead, you find yourself gripped by an uncharacteristic bout of hoarding.
Refrigerator Reliquary invites you to sit in that pause, reflecting on the tangible items and the person behind them, and share the story.
What have you held onto that someone you loved kept? Why? How are you keeping it?
