“All photographs are momento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. ”

— Susan Sontag —

Inspired by the writings of Susan Sontag on Photography, as well as the concrete poetry of Jenny Holtzer I created this series of 19 photo boxes which I gave as gifts to my classmates.

Created to protect the memories of those who you hold dear; these photo boxes also expose the the dark underbelly of photography and the participation in nostalgia.

This photo box illustrates our cultures juxtaposing relationships with photographic images. Designed to hold printed photographs, an artifact of the past. This box creates a uniquely discursive user experience. The sinister connotation of memento mori is buried by the photos housed in the box, sealed with the recognition that this is a kit of images bearing witness to connectedness.

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