projext sunshine

a collaborative, multi-modal projext

whether sunrise or sunset, there is sunshine. introducing projext sunshine, a collaborative, multi-modal projext illuminating conversations and practices around death and dying across cultures. from poetry to photo essays to autoethnographies to radio shows to syllabi, sunshine aims to share ideas around the multiple meanings of death from artists, activists, scholars, teacher-students, and international community members. please see patch of sky, our latest open-source magazine, that focuses on multi-modal expressions of death and dying underneath patches of sky.

our projext is grounded in refusing N.A.S. - necropolitics, anti-blackness, and settler-colonialism. we center experiences and works that resist the epistemic (knowledge making) violence, silence, erasure of the archives. sunshine is a series of constellations, a kaleidoscope that bears witness to the plurality of death.

To whom it may concern:

Welcome to the first series of patch of sky, illuminating conversations on death and dying underneath at a patch of sky. From August 2025 to December 2025, we traveled to New York City, USA; Accra, Ghana; Oaxaca, Mexico; and Bali, Indonesia. Traveling, we facilitated conversations on death, taught seminars with university students, and, for the theme of this series, witnessed various patches of skies as well as the death practices and customs that are observed around them. We…

WIT/NESS

In undissertation: a collective unraveling, we wrote "...to clarify, when we say "bear witness," it is to witness as a storyteller, not as the witness in a courtroom. There are two highly different modes of witnessing. In the courtroom, there are facts that lead to a binary guilty/not guilty verdict. Bearing witness in storytelling is about the search for multiple truths within layers, dimensions, and densities that cannot be unpacked to oversimplifications – which is an essential element in the unmethodology intervention – refusing the modes of disciplines to bear witness" (Morton 2024, p. 97). We are attentive to witnessing and expressing that in multiple modalities –

– to encourage you as well to reflect on death and dying. We welcome you to join us, sit next to us on the grass, underneath a

patch of sky.

Dr. Noah Morton