Ritual for an end, and beginning

2025

Shen Ling Bai Zhu San (参苓白术散) ancient formula, clay pot, bowls, moss, dirt, audio components, stools

An interactive installation centered on a guided meditation. Visitors sip on a medicinal soup formulated to tonify Qi and support the body through grief as they reflect on death as transformation–decomposition, regeneration, ancestral reunion, and return to nature. In slowing down through ritual, we are reminded that mortality gives life meaning, and that endings are portals to new forms of becoming.

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