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BURIAL SITES

LYDIA SMITH











READER


ESSAYS



Remaking

Walking through these landscapes brings death to the scale and pace of my body. They are labyrinths of meditation. They give me an outlet for grief. I find comfort in the practice of philosophy, and self-reflection. I have no memories tied that can trigger me, but I still experience the site’s traumas on a tangent. 

To walk through the cemetery is like reading an abstract book of human stories. Every grave marker is a page, many illegible and blank. Each plot section is a chapter composed of complex networks of relationships. It is a text that is constantly being added to and rewritten. To walk through the cemetery, one adds a new trace, a new layer. 






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