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WELCOME TO PLAYING MARBLES FOR KEEPS

Welcome to Playing Marbles for Keeps, a love letter to cemeteries that explores the beauty, culture, and emotion of burial grounds. ​

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Negotiation of Polar Forces

Life and Death. Practical and Sentimental. Decay and Memory. Cemeteries are battlegrounds for the negotiation of polar forces. ​

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The Science of Cemeteries

From anthropology to zoology, burial places are laboratories and reference archives for us to learn about the past, present, and future.

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Emotion Made Concrete

Emotion is ethereal, but stone endures. Memorials give voice to people long past and humanize those who have gone before.

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