Mapping the Liminal

This ongoing project explores cemeteries as living cultural landscapes where memory, architecture, nature, and community intersect. The work approaches these spaces not as static repositories of the past, but as evolving environments that reveal how societies negotiate grief, belonging, and urban change. Through site-based projects, historical research, archival documentation, mapping, LiDar scanning, ethnographic study, MTL traces the shifting boundaries between the sacred and the civic, examining how cemeteries mirror broader transformations in land use, social values, and environmental ethics. MTL is particularly interested in how cemeteries function as unexpected commons such as green corridors in dense urban centers, indicators of environmental change, historic markers, and stages for quiet acts of care that resist disposability. This project delves into the intricate tapestry of visitor experiences within cemeteries to unravel the shared patterns that shed light on the ways in which individuals engage with these sacred landscapes.

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