Transported Traditions shows practices or customs carried through one generation to the next, or that which is brought into the present from the past. I extended the miniature dollhouse idea from other art projects to a temple modeled after an ancient Etruscan king’s cinerary urn.
 
The temple is made of pink contemporary building material signifying a sacred place in present time. It is where the ancient, or past, renews itself to the present in an insulated chamber keeping the past as a memorial to the present.
 
The viewer peeks into the opening of the tomb to see miniature Queen Anne furniture covered in clay, representing a status symbol that has been buried in the earth and the remains of which are only gestures or memories. 

A miniature model TV is placed among the furniture because it has replaced family and home as the transported family center, changing traditions into moral and social messages for the masses.  
 
The 1950s miniature TV shows a two-minute video of digital stills photographed from my living room TV of a video from an 8mm film my father made of 1950-70s family vacations, gatherings, holidays, etc.