ABSTRACT
Home is a destination, a refuge, a place of respite, and inviolability. Domestic spaces are some of the most familiar places we inhabit, but rarely are they deemed worthy of meticulous consideration by their inhabitants. LiDAR, short for light detection and ranging, is a type of laser scanning that creates three-dimensional representations of surfaces or objects. Until recently, this technology was cost-prohibitive for general use and reserved for commercial applications like architectural, archaeological, or landscape surveying. LiDAR sensors have been integrated into the next generation of smartphones and tablets, putting these tools into the mainstream. During the COVID-19 lockdown, artist Stefani Byrd used 3-D scanning to investigate the commonplace and to create an archive of domesticity.
