Kevin Ramirez 9
GRAVEYARD SILHOUETTE
Layers of Blackness The graveyard silhouette collapses and layers disconnected elements bringing them together into a single image.This proposal is composed of two separate layers. The first consists of the graveyard and the church, iconic images that signify burial and death. The second layer is the wall that signifies the boundary of the site. This layer mediates between the graveyard and the site, filtering and framing view from and to the graveyard. The overlapping of these layers creates moments of tension within the final silhouette that focuses the viewer’s attention on symbolic aspects of its contours – for example, the lifeless trees, the forlorn ruins of the wall, or the church steeple reaching above the limit of the wall.