This second component of A Patch of Grass for Daisy plays on the Old English etymology of the word “grass,” which contains the letter æ, also known as an “ash.” In Græs, a baby bottle drying rack—designed by Boon® to resemble grass—is “planted” within a concrete planter box. The audience is invited to light a stick of incense* and place it upon the altar-like sculpture.

Over time, incense ashes fall in between the rigid “blades of grass” and are later collected to be placed inside the ceramic funeral urn in Græs’s sister installation—for Daisy (below). Through participatory and performative ritual, both Græs and for Daisy acknowledge the significance of the ground as a final resting place and pay homage to ashes as a symbol of death, repentance, and healing.