Simple and massive, this family burial monument uses honed and cleft surfaces along with inscriptions in Mandarin and in English to talk to the finality of death. One slab is vertical - acknowledging our aspirations to the divine - the other is horizontal - acknowledging that we are not divine. With stone sourced from the upper Midwest and China, and fabrication in the American South, this monument in the outskirts of Chicago, is, like it's client, a global citizen.
completed Summer 2012
Photos 2 - 7 by Matt Dula