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The Love Tombs

Songs of Love carved on standard granite tombstones.

This project is probably my divorce project, and the inspiration for it it´s this tombstone from Greenwood cemetery who has been my screen saver ever since...


The project was realized in two parts:


The first part is the grey granite stones, and the song titles carved on them by the Cemetery of Englewood (NJ) are all songs about lost love. I can´t recall when or how this idea came to me. But it did. And I thought it was important enough that I committed myself to develop it. So, every month I would do (and pay) for one, finding always a kindred soul with a car to help go pick it up :)

And then on the night of the new year of 2012 I had this dream where I was making an exhibition of the tombs, but they were two sets of 12, one in grey and the other in pink granite! There was also a man in the dream. A new man :) So I took the dream as an omen and decided to complete the series with the pink ones.

The song titles on the pink tomb stones are songs celebrating love and its glory :) And I came full circle I think of my divorce :)))

Project Gallery

Idée Fixe  is a Transdisciplinary Studio of Art and Architecture, run by Cristina Guadalupe Galván.

If in a website you normally find finished objects and products to share, what we are sharing here are more ideas – tested, developed and lived -- and their processes, that in many instances ended up happily physical. The creative process is about experimentation and the life that goes with it. The life and the people.

While building this site I came across a quote that explained it to me much better, by architects Josep Ferrando & Marta Poch, for their Quaderns d´Arquitectura, issue 273, THE THINKING TRADE:

      In a world dominated by images of the finished object and the immediacy of access to multimedia content, this issue of Quaderns sets out to reflect on the role of the architect –by means of their working processes, of the working methods (…) leaving the image of the built project on the background.

For artist Sol LeWitt, the process was also the work:

      The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. (...) It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned. 

Architect Josep Maria Sostres said something similar:

      The project, obviously as a mental conception, as a will to form, has a sovereignty, it has an internal power that must be imposed.

So this archive-website of Idee-Fixe, records more these ideas, processes and in many instances the collaborations that made them possible.

It´s about THE LIFE OF IDEAS.

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