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In the face of death

In the face of Death is a collaborative project with 25 students from Augsburg University of Applied Sciences and Falmouth University. The project aims to create a meaningful graphic system of symbols, which focus in ideas and beliefs at the end of life.
Infinity through intensity
 
Life begins with a small pile of cells and ends when age and disease break the spell of the self-healing power of our body. This is a fate nobody can change. I am not comfortable with the idea of total immortality. Would it be of any benefit to us or would the system get out of control as immortality is unhuman? How can you achieve endless life without some magical elixir? What about not being immortal in the sense of not dying, but being immortal within life? Maybe the secret of a long fullfilled life doesn’t lie in the quantity of time, but in the quality of experiences. Intense memories last longer than ordinary recurrent events. Your first kiss, for example, occupies a larger part of your memory than the ones that follow. This suggests that it should be possible to reach for immortality by focussing on intensity rather than longevity. If life were only a collection of intense moments, it would retrospectively seem much longer. Taking a step out of your daily comfort zone is a first step in the direction towards living forever.
 
Each of my symbols states a task that helps in leaving your comfort zone. Placed alltogehter they end up forming the comfort zone (CZ) with the actual symbols placed outside the CZ. Intense memories last longer than ordinary recurrent events. Life is short and there is no way to actually extend it to a FOREVER. But there is a way to collect memories that will last longer than others. And if the wealth of memories increases, so will your sense of lived time.
1     Birth
2     1st time experiences
3     Change your way of thinking
4     Face fear
5     Make a fool out of yourself
6     Change habits
7     Be yourself
8     Let perfection go
9     Back to nature
10   Take risks
11   Return to things you did as a child
12   Death
This 3D artefact ring will help you to leave your COMFORT ZONE. The heart shows you your pulse. If it will not raise or fall within one week it will ask you to leave your comfort zone and send you an assignment. Complete the task. Feel better.
 
In the face of death
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The project aims to create a meaningful graphic system of symbols, which focus in ideas and beliefs at the end of life. Each of my symbols state Read More

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