Don’t miss your opportunity to be a part of this event, now a highly anticipated Campbell tradition, a decade in the making! More information at: library.campbell.edu/symposium
Sign up or log in to bookmark your favorites and sync them to your phone or calendar.
"Below" is based on the concept of memento mori, or "remember, you will die." The viewer starts at a staircase that spirals down into a portal formed by distorted images of the Paris Catacombs, leading into a cold, dead graveyard -- the underworld. The composition doubles as an imitation of an eyeball: the stairs acting as the sclera, the portal as the iris, and the graveyard as the pupil. As the viewer looks down the staircase, it looks back at them -- reminding them that they too will meet the fate as the dead buried in those graves.