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1 July 2026

Returning

I describe the project as a civic sanctuary: ritual, memorial and grief care within a landscape.

In the ritual building, I am proposing the possibility of witnessing. At the water edge, I want the release of ashes to remain visible as it joins something larger.

Yet I also say that grief care needs protection from ritual. I am holding a wish to see beside a wish not to be exposed. ^july-witness-cue

The memorial is where I keep imagining people returning: food, stories, objects, art, time with others. ^july-return-cue

There also needs to be somewhere for quiet, individual remembrance. I do not want gathering to turn memory into entertainment.

All of this belongs to the project as I am presenting it. I cannot assume it will belong together easily in space.

I can name the three programmes. I am still trying to understand what passes between them, and what should not.

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Reading onward

Read gathering, individual remembrance and grief care. The reading ends after “Grief care and belonging”, beside an excerpt from this entry and a link back here. ^july-knowledge-fork

Also present: witnessing and protection. If you arrived from that discussion, return to witnessing, visibility and exposure.

Continue in Time: 30 August.

Source: Parishka. Project presentation to Dirk and Liale, 1 July 2026. Unpublished presentation transcript. The entry adapts the stated ritual, memorial and grief-care intentions.