THE PROJECT

It begins with a single question:

What is your relationship with grief?  

The Grief Box brings this question to public spaces, where — in turn, embracing our shared experience — stories of loss can be recorded and preserved.

Through sound and story, the Grief Box shares personal mourning as a collective human experience now and as an archive (a time capsule) for future remembrance.

Box I

Individual stories are recorded. 

Box II

The stories are fused into a soundscape, answering the question "What does all our grieving sound like?"  The soundscape will be presented as an installation.

Box III

The stories, the soundscape plus a companion podcast and short documentary film chronicling the project will be sealed in a time capsule for future generations to know we grieved too.

The anonymity is intentional and essential.

By stepping back from individual recognition, the focus stays on the stories themselves — on what is shared, remembered, and carried forward.

In this way, the work becomes both deeply personal and wholly collective, a space where private mourning folds into a shared, enduring legacy.