Serina Clemente

Death of the Vessel: Modern Fixation with Impermanence

A visual development project influenced by information regarding death customs in the 19th Century through pixel art.

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Through the lens of 19th Century death decorum—and its influence on contemporary American relationships to death—Death of the Vessel seeks to explore difficult concepts, such as one’s own mortality or the death of loved ones. Additionally, ideas like environmental degradation resulting from industrialization help contextualize death and the funerary industrial complex as an intersectional, multifaceted issue worth engaging with.

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