Immersive Installation / Augmented Reality / Experimental Documentary
2025-ongoing

Bed of Roses is an immersive documentary installation about the spaces immigrants build around themselves after leaving home. Centered on Jamaican migration, the work recreates the familiarity of a Caribbean living room and uses augmented reality to reveal stories, memories, and fragments embedded within its objects.

Rather than asking audiences to watch a story unfold from a distance, the installation asks them to move through it. Furniture, photographs, decorative objects, sound, and digital interventions become points of entry into experiences of migration, family, longing, adaptation, and memory.

The project is interested in a simple question: when home becomes something you can no longer physically return to in the same way, how do you rebuild it around you?

Visitors enter a constructed Jamaican living room populated with familiar domestic objects. Certain objects act as augmented-reality triggers. Through a phone or tablet, physical objects reveal additional layers - moving image, sound, testimony, archival material, or digital interventions that are otherwise invisible in the room.

Physical space = what can be seen.
AR layer = what is remembered / carried / hidden.

The installation borrows from the visual language of Jamaican and Caribbean domestic interiors - rooms where photographs, artificial flowers, furniture coverings, religious objects, souvenirs, and decorative objects accumulate into an informal family archive. In Bed of Roses, that domestic language becomes both set and interface.

Developed through the Black Public Media BPMplus Fellowship