In queer culture there are very few spaces that allow us to look back and remember. One of these is Prospect Cottage and its garden on Dungeness, once home to the late queer filmmaker Derek Jarman. The project takes this site of queer pilgrimage and expands upon it, incorporating work from previous projects which used AI to map Prospect Cottage onto the Dungeness nuclear powerplant. This use of AI to texture mixed reality environments prompted an investigation into the ways in which we understand queerness and how we might understand a world of mixed reality.

Queerness can involve a certainty of feeling around gender or sexuality. This project takes inspiration from this prioritisation of personal feeling and applies it to digital space; it suggests that to feel one is in a real space is to be in that space. Through this, reality and architecture become about personal perception and feeling. The project uses this to build a simple series of platforms positioned to create views in landscape garden. A dynamic set of digital spaces is virtually projected on top–each platform representing a different lost queer icon.