My travel studio took a trip to New Orleans to study a city reflexively as a student of architecture and a tourist. We gathered information through a variety of media types and returned to Boston to develop gallery installations to present our findings. As a tourist, I had taken photos in one of the squares of St. Louis #2 that had been closed for the pandemic. The spatial quality of the overgrown, above ground cemetery compelled me to study it, but I realized many of the features that drew me to it would not be available to those who weren’t physically there. I wanted to translate the feeling of walking through the maze-like space and finding the tributes and treasures that had been left behind and blown about in the recent hurricane–the spontaneity of what captured my attention while exploring. I created a 3D model of the cemetery block based on historic documents and situated my photographs in space so that, from a certain perspective, the photographs would align with the model and reveal the moments that captured my attention as a photographer. This model was brought into Enscape and the gallery visitors were allowed to walk through my model in virtual reality.
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