Mapping
I have been doing a lot of thinking about mapping and our relationship to places.
We see a map as a piece of technical information, a static two dimensional entity. Here is something I read in the book Boundaries of Home: Mapping the Local Environment, p 72, edited by Doug Aberley
“Maps hold a magic that is anything but technical. Maps are a human attempt to represent the incredible complexities of time and space. They are shorthand for perceptions that each of us create with senses evolved as hunters and gatherers, as explorers, as animals that must navigate to survive. A map becomes more than a series of lines; it becomes an agenda for action, a turf to defend, a series of memories that remind of action and pleasure and history. Maps have been made that inflame war and hatred. Maps have been made that create new visions of human society.”
I am trying to capture the layers of our relationship to places in my project. I think it is going to be called I know a place...
