Each year we ask the current thesis students to share one of their favorite projects from the previous year. Introducing:

Radhika Maheshwari, Mumbai, India

Project: Death

“My final project for Warren Lehrer’s class turned out to be one of my most favorite projects from last year. I was very inspired by a show that I was watching at that time which was about life, death and afterlife. I wondered why death was perceived as such a negative context and thought if ‘Death’ were a real person he would simply be doing his job. I imagined Death being really old, so old, that he cannot remember when he came into being, it is possible that he could be as old, or even older than God Himself. Due to the times and technology, Death drives in a pale grey Cadillac which represents his pale steed.

This journal belonged to Death the head of The Expiry Division which was the Department of Death and Reapers where he had to record his daily job and the conversations that he had with the person whose soul he reaps. In return he would provide a Rest in Peace receipt. There is record of every expense that incurs in the day in form of bills from a restaurant to Doom’s parking lot. Death also maintains a calendar for the year of 1951 where he sets reminders for meetings with the Plague Division.”