🪦Featuring Marisa Chafetz’s (@marischafetz ) project “Last Words of a Shooting Star.”

“Last Words of a Shooting Star examines death, memory, and the land through portraits and landscapes created in cemeteries.

This work draws upon the Victorian vision of cemeteries as both sacred and aesthetic spaces: park-like landscapes designed for reflection, romance, and grandeur. Inspired by ideas from David Robinson’s Saving Graces, I see cemeteries not simply as places of death, but as repositories of memory where art and love coalesce into forms meant to outlast us. With this perspective, I consider how images—like gravestones—serve as physical vessels of remembrance, continually transformed by the passage of time.

The project is ultimately guided by a desire to commune across time, weaving together past and future lineages of devotion and longing. By making images within these sites, I hope to connect with all who have shaped them, and to imaginatively collaborate with the architects, sculptors, mourners, and visitors whose presence, labor, and grief have inscribed meaning into the grounds. In pursuing this work, I carry forward the ancient human impulse to bring form and beauty to the unknowable realm of the Great Beyond.”
New images from my ongoing project making portraits + landscapes in cemeteries
It’s been about a year since I started making this project in earnest and it’s been such a beautiful and grounding force in my life 🪦❣️#gratefulforpictures
Kristin Chenoweth and Jackie Siegel shot at The Met for NYT!
I’m such a fan of Lauren Greenfield’s The Queen of Versailles so this was a dream!! And how amazing to get to shoot at The Met. Thank you so much for the call @jolieruben@amandalwebster
And thank you to my lovely assistant bestie @tuuuski ❣️
I've been really inspired by stained glass lately and made this collage using old test strips + c-prints from 2023
Hoping to make more of these with new images
