“We cannot overlook the way in which the Industrial Revolution and its technological consequences have transformed the experience of death in people’s lives.” As discussed by the German Philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, we stand at a point where the relevance of death in our lives has increasingly been excluded from the public realm, as cemeteries and monuments have been displaced from the centers of our cities. This “underrepresentation of death” has had a tremendous effect on the cathartic articulation of the public ritual and the deep human need to reconcile the ephemeral boundaries of life and death. Drawing upon the surrealistic strategies of the “Exquisite Corpse,” this project explores the intersectional overlapping between the Visible and Invisible at New York City’s largest public burial ground, Hart island (also dubbed “prison of the dead”). This site epitomizes the outcasted, forlorn and forgotten other, thus the project not only seeks to shed light on the loss of identity but provides spaces of empathetic exchange and ritual for contemplating the peripheries between self and other and even (the potential reversibility) of life and death.