Cities of the Dead: N'Awlinz, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

N'Awlinz, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1

There is a backchannel of communication going on between Sid and I talking about postings and locations and variations (oh my) on the theme. Amongst ourselves we've already talked about this particular site and I thought I'd take the opportunity to introduce it to you with an offering, well multiple offerings.

Offerings to Marie Laveau

These are the offerings placed at the front of the Glapion family crypt, the reputed resting place of the voodoo priestess Marie Laveau at the St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Making wishes

The side of the tomb is decorated with 'x' marks drawn by visitors to the site in the hopes that Marie Laveau grants them a wish.

Colin

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Where art meets the landscape

Graveyards of all shapes and sizes have drawn me to them for many years. Often they are places of reflection, after all you're walking through a place where people have been put to rest (as they say) and they have a kind of morbid beauty manifested in the sculptures and stonework which abide there. They are often quiet places, removed from the busy haunts and paths of the living. Cemeteries are human spaces where stone marks past lives and yet that stone too, symbol of permanence, decays over time.

Colin