Retentive Sentiments encounters death as a program in response to the Department of Parks and Recreation plans to turn once a Potter’s Field and the burial grounds for those that died in pandemics throughout history into a park. As the process of grief becomes an entangled maze that loses its weight throughout time, multiple moments along the route recognize the need to return to isolation and contemplation. Along their journey it is clear that the memory of each individual is clustered into a collective memory stitched within the Island’s history: inseparable and resilient.
