The way home, 2017-2019
Between October 20, 2017 and October 19, 2019, I made a map drawing from memory of my day, layered on top of a photograph taken that same day. These combine for an image executed daily, becoming a visual record of my movement, memory, and visual interests everyday.
Handmade map-making based in memory and affect has been a way to capture a personal relationship to place. Rooted in memory, the maps are imperfect, partial, tentative, and expand, contract or disappear based on my own experience of a particular place.
Over the same time, Google Maps tracked my every move with its Timeline feature through GPS, an extensive digital platform, and content-aware advertising. Hand-drawn maps retain a human relationship to the map-maker, suggesting a nuanced personal and experiential way of being in the world, created by use and by care for a place: it is a map made at ground level. Likewise, the accompanying photographs are of a life lived, daily, often centered in a single neighborhood, looking for beauty in everyday moments.
The first year of images is available on Instagram.
Between October 20, 2017 and October 19, 2019, I made a map drawing from memory of my day, layered on top of a photograph taken that same day. These combine for an image executed daily, becoming a visual record of my movement, memory, and visual interests everyday.
Handmade map-making based in memory and affect has been a way to capture a personal relationship to place. Rooted in memory, the maps are imperfect, partial, tentative, and expand, contract or disappear based on my own experience of a particular place.
Over the same time, Google Maps tracked my every move with its Timeline feature through GPS, an extensive digital platform, and content-aware advertising. Hand-drawn maps retain a human relationship to the map-maker, suggesting a nuanced personal and experiential way of being in the world, created by use and by care for a place: it is a map made at ground level. Likewise, the accompanying photographs are of a life lived, daily, often centered in a single neighborhood, looking for beauty in everyday moments.
The first year of images is available on Instagram.