Dérive by Tricia Tanaka
March 22nd, 2008 9:28 PM
In which I wander around a graveyard seemingly at random, heading in the direction of whichever gravestone or marking caught my eye.
Not just graves, but plant life as well. Particularly the giant cypresses and flowers.
A (nearly) complete guide to a little cemetery that people don't often visit.
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The intricate carvings, property line, and "mailbox" are my favorites.
Given that the task suggests a journey, it would've been cool to see more of a narrative of what attracted you where, or some other map of your wanderings. (Maybe I'm just too obsessed with this sort of thing.)
You found Cthulhu's grave. Go figure.
A little shy of a full scale instance of the Dérive, perhaps, but I'm a sucker for exploring graveyards.
Given the huge amount of visual information packed into a graveyard, and the hours I've spent even in small graveyards, just wandering from pocket to pocket, I believe it magnifies the scale appropriately. Nicely done.
"At its minimum it can be limited to a small self-contained ambience: a single neighborhood or even a single block of houses if it’s interesting enough (the extreme case being a static-dérive of an entire day within the Saint-Lazare train station)."
Thank you for picking out all the little details on the gravestones - that's always the best, and sometimes most heartbreaking, part of a graveyard.