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Project Amargosa – For Gilles Jobin Company
Volumetric documentation by Elena Rosa and Margaret LaCorte using Gaussian splatting techniques for Gilles Jobin Company
Margaret and I worked on Project Amargosa as part of a larger XR production by choreographer and director Gilles Jobin (Cosmogony, VR_I, Dance Trail), contributing volumetric assets for use in immersive environments.
The project focused on documenting the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel, a remote cultural landmark in Death Valley Junction, California. Using a Gaussian splatting workflow, we captured the site’s theatre space, crumbling facades, sculptural elements, and surrounding desert — creating spatial datasets that preserve its fragile atmosphere and architectural detail.
At the center of the capture is the legacy of Marta Becket, a dancer and painter who transformed the Amargosa into a one-woman performance palace, filling its walls with hand-painted murals and performing for decades in near isolation. Her presence haunts the space, and became integral to the tone of the volumetric work.
Project Amargosa serves as both an archival gesture and a poetic rendering — preserving a vanishing world and translating it into immersive, embodied memory.