My creative identity is informed by my geographic background. I consider myself an inheritor of displacement, having grown up in the margins of the city. This became the point of departure for my thesis project. The site is Avalon Cemetery, bounded by the edges of Soweto, Lenasia and Eldorado Park; the margins where the non-European communities of Johannesburg were separated and located. Categorised as either Black African, Indian and Coloured, these communities were relocated according to the Group Areas Act, on the basis of race. Not only is this marginal terrain a common space of death, it is also a generator of political agency and cultural presence. The aim of the project is to read the social relations of the landscape as a palimpsest, and rescript a layer of spatial relations onto it, conceptualising the intervention as a living archive. The built form fuses infrastructure and earth, becoming the stage on which the presence of the erased can be re-inscribed into the landscape.