Cocoon Memories
Set against the suffocating isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cocoon Memories reimagines the domestic sphere as a site of clinical preservation and ritualistic binding. By encasing artifacts donated by others—objects saturated with personal history—in meticulous layers of thread, the work archives the tension between individual grief and collective memory.
Through a series of sculptures and a central performance, the project interrogates the architecture of the "self" within a fractured society. Drawing on the concept of the cocoon as both a prison and a catalyst, the work questions if we are merely the sum of our past attachments or if radical transformation is possible only through the total surrender of what we once held dear.
Cocoon Memories, mixed media installation and performance, 2020 Sonoma Co. "Art-land of Christo" In collaboration with SideOfBarn 2020 by Peter Shaw Éminence grise: Stuart Mackay , Videos and photos: Vahid Zamani
Cocoon Memories Installation and Performance, 2020