Linear Sketches and HULU HOME

River of Forgetfulness
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers."
—— The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot.

In Greek mythology, the shades of the dead were required to drink the waters of the Lethe (the river of forgetfulness) in order to forget their earthly life. Also in traditional China, Lethe is called "忘川", a bridge between life and death, a river where memories disappear. Trivial memories cannot be touched, it only leaves the fragmented relic. This collection of MMR products concludes HULU HOME and LINEAR SKETCHES, both inspired by archaeology based on everyday objects. Through a layered accumulation of contextual transliteration, it oers a palimpsest of living traces, which becomes ambiguous, and thus gets renascence. 

ABOUT MMR STUDIO
passing by the river of memories
MMR STUDIO was founded by designer
Zhongyu Zhang in Shanghai(2021). Zhang's
design practice decodes the memories
of everyday life from three perspectives:
materials, modality and routine, to trace back
various cultures and establish the emotional
connection between contemporary life and
the "primal scene".
When we talk about memories,
the perception changes,
the details of stories get lost,
and the weight of time fragments.
Imagine passing by a river full of memories,
but none of us ever step into it.