CINEMATIC
LANDSCAPE
EXCHANGE
Title: Straight Line To Lucy
Name: Joseph Gabriel Murray
Sound: Laurie Anderson and Jerskin Fendrix
All that remains of Lucy is a cemetery.
Each year in September, two billion litres of water flood the Estancia basin, New Mexico, washing sand and sediment down from the mountains to Lucy.
As you approach the site, two hills stand out amidst the flatness of the horizon. These lie between the old cemetery and an archaeological site. In 1954, around the time of Lucy’s desertion, archaeologists discovered some of the oldest evidence of human life in America. Supported by the granite below. These traces are equal next to Lucy’s modern ruins.
The landscapes of New Mexico are central to its identity, with geological features being intrinsically connected to both folklore and myth. One of these ancient landmarks, Chaco Canyon, demonstrates how a structure’s alignment to the cosmos is deeply connected to its ceremonial, religious, or mythic potential. With the naked eye, there is a limit to what one can understand, and so myths fill in the gaps. Whilst cutting the shape of the sun’s path over a fixed point, the study of light became archaeological; the forms of the proposal were there to be discovered, just under the surface of the world’s rhythms.
The project is about time, about what changes, and what can stay the same, and takes the form of a crematorium and columbarium.
It is a method of creating a connection to the landscape for the residents of the Estancia Basin. Like the water that floods it each year, their lives and memory can flow to Lucy.
Name: Joseph Gabriel Murray
Sound: Laurie Anderson and Jerskin Fendrix
All that remains of Lucy is a cemetery.
Each year in September, two billion litres of water flood the Estancia basin, New Mexico, washing sand and sediment down from the mountains to Lucy.
As you approach the site, two hills stand out amidst the flatness of the horizon. These lie between the old cemetery and an archaeological site. In 1954, around the time of Lucy’s desertion, archaeologists discovered some of the oldest evidence of human life in America. Supported by the granite below. These traces are equal next to Lucy’s modern ruins.
The landscapes of New Mexico are central to its identity, with geological features being intrinsically connected to both folklore and myth. One of these ancient landmarks, Chaco Canyon, demonstrates how a structure’s alignment to the cosmos is deeply connected to its ceremonial, religious, or mythic potential. With the naked eye, there is a limit to what one can understand, and so myths fill in the gaps. Whilst cutting the shape of the sun’s path over a fixed point, the study of light became archaeological; the forms of the proposal were there to be discovered, just under the surface of the world’s rhythms.
The project is about time, about what changes, and what can stay the same, and takes the form of a crematorium and columbarium.
It is a method of creating a connection to the landscape for the residents of the Estancia Basin. Like the water that floods it each year, their lives and memory can flow to Lucy.
