CCYD STUDIO

Project

Sirens of Lethe, 2024

Materials: translucent plastic semiconductor waffle packs, hand-painted glass cloches, lighting and wires.

Dimensions: variable/installation dependent

Venue: Texas Biennial, Houston TX; Canopy Projects, Austin TX

Sirens of Lethe is an installation project that examines how grief and memory circulate through space, employing modular light forms and translucent materials to explore forgetting as an active, embodied condition rather than an absence.

Sirens of Lethe takes its name from the mythological river of forgetting, not as a literal reference but as a conceptual framework for examining how memory dissolves, persists, and reconfigures itself over time. The installation is composed of stacked translucent modules derived from single-use plastic packaging, some internally illuminated, others left dormant. Electrical wiring remains intentionally visible, accumulating across the floor like a secondary drawing that suggests both circulation and entanglement.

Rather than narrating grief through symbolism, the work approaches forgetting as a structural condition — something built, layered, and inhabited. Light functions less as illumination than as a pulse: intermittent, uneven, and emotionally charged. Viewers encounter the installation at ground level, navigating a field of repeated forms that resist hierarchy and invite slow movement, echoing the way memory operates through accumulation rather than resolution.

As part of an ongoing investigation within CCYD Studio’s practice, Sirens of Lethe situates personal loss within broader systems of material excess, technological mediation, and spatial perception. The work proposes forgetting not as erasure, but as a necessary, if uneasy, mechanism for continuing — one that is collective, infrastructural, and inseparable from the environments we construct.