The grave should be personal first and foremost. That is why I chose the topography of the terrain around my father's home village on the Slovak-Ukrainian border. The contours served as a matrix for the concrete tombstone, an abstracted model of the landscape of his childhood that levitates gently above the grave space lined with corroded steel sheeting. The tombstone is placed horizontally, water draining from the surface as in reality. Drifting dust patinas the concrete with the flow, adding a new contrasting and colorful layer to the otherwise homogeneous surface. The surface changes with weather and time, so the entire grave naturally ages.

We downloaded the contours of the location and modeled the terrain. We milled an inversion matrix of the landscape on the robotic arm. This served as the mould for the composite concrete shell. This was chosen because of its lightweight, with regard to handling when opening the grave space. The grave lid is loosely laid on a steel structure, based on postcrete drilled footings. This is lined with a 3mm thick steel plate, with candles to lit on its overlap.
Maintenance-free design: the steel rusts and the impregnated concrete acquires a patina.