Remember the matches that I used? The bursting of flames are celebratory for certain rites of passages. Whilst the flames represent life. But as the matchstick burns, so does life, and life becomes shorter.
Okay... The final archive that I have in mind is a clock. The clock has been around for a long time. It is the ideal instrument that will go forth into the future, as time is after all timeless (pardon the pun). And just to let you know how far back the instrument dates to (as quoted from Wikipedia),
The current sexagesimal system of time measurement dates to approximately 2000 BC, in Sumer.
Btw, sexagesimal refers to a numeral system with 60 as a base. 60 seconds, 60 minutes...
Using my clockface as a medium, I intend to design 100 matches to be laid on the face. The reason why I chose 100 is because 100 is a full, perfect and whole number. And also a number that people have aged until, although the lifespan for most human beings would be 75 or so.
Inside this clock houses a scroll that contains information about the many rites of passages that occur at any given age. There are approximately 25 different types of rites listed in the scroll, and they have been organized linearly according to the numerical age of human beings.
But, I'm still in progress of thinking better ways to represent age via time and rites of passages... And here are some pictures of the clock that I've already started on.
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