Passed/Past (A Symbolic Application)

People constantly design and invent ways to remember the past. People often applied symbolic meanings through their designed objects. For example, enormously built tombs in remembrance of the dead king, icons or logos that symbolized a religion or tribe, tattoos that provided social status, monuments that symbolized an event occurred in the past, and tombstones that honored and helped people to remember the dead. Throughout history people had designed objects in remembrance of people or events.

The Egyptian Pyramid was the king’s tomb that was built in remembrance of the king after his death. It is also described as a “machine” to the afterlife.

The cross is the symbol of Christianity in remembrance of Jesus dying on the cross to redeem the world. However, before Jesus died on the cross the cross was a symbol of curse. It was a device for executing the worst criminals in the Roman Empire. The cross is also a tool for Christians to remember and thank Jesus for going through a tremendous amount of pain and redeeming Christians from their sin.

The Russian Mafia tattoos are a symbol that provides detailed information of the wearer. The Russian Mafias rank their members by different types of tattoo. When a member does something wrong they are forced to have a special type of tattoo so that the wearer can remember his faults and not repeat the same mistake.

The Statue of Liberty is a symbol of liberty and freedom of America. This statue was deliberately built for the American people to look at the statue and remember what idea America was based upon, liberty.

The Memorial Hall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a symbolic wall that honors the members of the US Armed Force who died in the Vietnam War. The wall has the veterans’ names engraved on. Not only to honor the veterans, but this wall’s purpose was to remember them for eternity.