ASHLINE: A Map of Memory and Regrowth is a visual memorial that transforms wildfire damage data into a landscape of remembrance and regeneration. Beginning with a dataset of structures damaged in the Palisades and Eaton Canyon fire zones, the project uses geospatial information, procedural design, and topographic reconstruction to explore how memory, trauma, and recovery manifest across physical and emotional terrains.
By combining real time mapping with emotional abstraction, the piece invites viewers to consider the quiet aftermath of disaster—not just what was destroyed, but what can grow in its place. Through algorithmic fractals and floating data markers, ASHLINE reimagines geographic loss as a ritual of light and reflection.
