Breonna Taylor Is The Subject Of A New Augmented Reality Art Experience That You Can Participate In, Too – Louisville Eccentric Observer

Art Basel art fair in Miami is paying tribute to Louisville’s Breonna Taylor with an augmented reality experience that you can also participate in remotely. Digital curator Lady PheOnix worked with Taylor’s sister, Ju’Niyah Palmer to create the experience titled Breonna’s Garden. 

The experience will be installed at Maurice A. Ferré Park (Museum Park) in Miami, Florida from Dec. 1 through the 6. You can also download an app to bring the experience to your home.

Breonna’s Garden first premiered at the Tribeca Festival. The experience is revolutionary as a space that puts the digital in the physical and surrounds viewers with some of Breonna’s favorite things including flowers and butterflies, according to a news release. 

The project started when Lady PheOnix connected with Palmer sensing that there was a needed safe space online where family and friends could mourn, and after some discussion, that there were entire communities that needed a place to process this grief. 

“We created Breonna’s Garden to honor the life of Breonna Taylor with the intention that it be a peaceful refuge, unencumbered by the weight of the world,” said Lady PheOnix in a release. 

Since the birth of the project, it has changed from a mechanism for healing for her family to one that gives that to the nation.

From the release,  “It is a sanctuary where her name can be said without negation, and others can share their own stories of grief without fear of judgement. The technology allows people in the garden to record their own messages, which can be heard by the next visitors, effectively creating a chain of vulnerability and hope that helps to heal entire communities. 

“Breonna died in a world of violence, but she will live on in peace surrounded by beautiful memories, butterflies, and her favorite things, ” said Lady PheOnix in the release.  

The artists involved in its creation, “volunteered their time.”  

In addition to the Breonna’s Garden experience, There will be a panel discussion on the 5th of December from 2-3 p.m. at the Pérez Art Museum also in Miami with Lady PheOnix, Alex Kipman (head of Microsoft HoloLens/ and developer of Xbox Kinect, Taylor’s partner Kenneth Walker and producer Joanna Popper (HP’s Global Head of Virtual Reality).

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