Monument Emitter
This work reveals the entrenched narratives surrounding monuments and the sanitized consciousness communities have come to accept around them, while prompting questions of how we should understand historical heritage and the revisionist futures it implies.
In this project, empty plinths and digital monument models are reimagined as particle emitters within a 3D environment. Instead of presenting statues as solid, immutable symbols, they dissolve into streams of particles, droplets, and data points. The images show fragmented architectural bases, fountains of scattering pixels, and outlines composed entirely of particulate traces. By associating the particle systems with sprinklers and water droplets, the installation expands the scope of these revered objects, suggesting their porousness, mutability, and entanglement with cycles of care, maintenance, and erasure.
The transformation is both literal and metaphorical: monuments lose their fixed form and instead emit, scatter, and circulate—echoing how collective memory is constantly revised, redistributed, and contested. The work becomes a meditation space, not on the permanence of stone or bronze, but on the flows of history, the fragility of remembrance, and the possibility of monuments as catalysts for sustainable and evolving historical discourse.
