Installation view. (Antarctica Map in Russian)
Detail view. (Tasmania cut-out of Russian Antarctica map.)
Installation view. (Tasmania cut-out installed onto corresponding smudge on floor.)
Installaiton view. (Island of Nihau map.)
Detail view. (Island of Nihau map with Lehau Island cut-out.)
Installaiton view. (Lehua Island cut-out on floor.)
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Maps, map pins, tape
Site-specific Installation
Classroom 102 Gallery
2009
Uses already existing remnants within a space with a past history as a printmaking studio workshop. These otherwise over-looked elements—dents, gouges, splotches—are given a new meaning, identity, and context when I match them with geographical territories on maps. This gesture matches one abstracted shape created by chance through the spill of paint or natural wear with another shape that is created by geo-political means. The viewer is left to navigate through the installation, sometimes unaware that they may be stepping on a mapped section of the floor.
Maps obtained from the to-be-discarded pile at the National Geographic Map Library.
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