MIDSUMMER SUNSET
Description: A Midsummer Nights Dream
Name of contributor: Anon
Reason: "My grandfather died one year ago just before the last years edition of Ars Electronica Festival was stating...
My grandfather become 95 years old but I always was sure that he would become 100. he was very nice, gentle and wise man reading a lot of books throughout the year, learned new languages during his retirement, did yoga every day and loved to work in his garden..As he died last year in August I was int he middle of the busy festival time and I couldn't believe it...He had been in hospital for some weeks and the day he died he came back home and I think it was the second day for him back home. So in the end I realized that he came home to die. I somehow managed to smother my big sadness during the festival preparation time..until a few weeks ago I wasn't really able to realize that my grandfather has gone. But as I got home some weeks ago and saw the garden of my grandfather, which was always prepared like a classical English garden, I saw the garden totally overgrown and then I got really sad again realizing that he has gone forever. The book I want to hand in is the book 'A Midsummer Nights Dream' from Shakespeare, this is one memory I got from his personal library. And as the night he died it was also a long midsummer night and for a long time I couldn't believe it and only thought it must have been a dream - a midsummer night's dream."
The book is exploded on page ninety five, corresponding to his age when he died, the book has around 100 pages corresponding to the granddaughter's expectations of his life. The shape represents a large midsummer sun setting on the horizon and his life. There are particularly poignant words on the page including sleep, bedtime and 'rage' which evokes the famous line 'rage, rage against the dying of the light' from the poem Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas, which deals with the subject of death, its acceptance and the attitude of living before the moment of death.
Name of contributor: Anon
Reason: "My grandfather died one year ago just before the last years edition of Ars Electronica Festival was stating...
My grandfather become 95 years old but I always was sure that he would become 100. he was very nice, gentle and wise man reading a lot of books throughout the year, learned new languages during his retirement, did yoga every day and loved to work in his garden..As he died last year in August I was int he middle of the busy festival time and I couldn't believe it...He had been in hospital for some weeks and the day he died he came back home and I think it was the second day for him back home. So in the end I realized that he came home to die. I somehow managed to smother my big sadness during the festival preparation time..until a few weeks ago I wasn't really able to realize that my grandfather has gone. But as I got home some weeks ago and saw the garden of my grandfather, which was always prepared like a classical English garden, I saw the garden totally overgrown and then I got really sad again realizing that he has gone forever. The book I want to hand in is the book 'A Midsummer Nights Dream' from Shakespeare, this is one memory I got from his personal library. And as the night he died it was also a long midsummer night and for a long time I couldn't believe it and only thought it must have been a dream - a midsummer night's dream."
The book is exploded on page ninety five, corresponding to his age when he died, the book has around 100 pages corresponding to the granddaughter's expectations of his life. The shape represents a large midsummer sun setting on the horizon and his life. There are particularly poignant words on the page including sleep, bedtime and 'rage' which evokes the famous line 'rage, rage against the dying of the light' from the poem Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas, which deals with the subject of death, its acceptance and the attitude of living before the moment of death.
