SCROLLS and ROLLS
Digital Photography
Maps of our surroundings take landforms of varying shape and present them on a flat surface. How does this change how we perceive the land we travel on? What happens when those forms of flat land we call maps are presented in new ways?
Before there were books, there were scrolls. The roll is a form that is synonymous with paper. A roll of paper becomes an extension of the mind and of the hand. We use paper to transcribe our life and knowledge for sharing with others. Whether it be a map, journal or drawing, it is a tool of record keeping. Without the meaning, it simply becomes patterns on a surface.
The patterns on the surface can be emphasized or obscured by the rolled paper, hiding its contents within its exterior face. Any depictions become a procession ready to be shared through unrolling. Likewise a folded map becomes an unfolding landscape with grand dimensions of space. The magic of paper is in its unveiling of new truths through abstracted symbols and code scribed with the sole intention of being read.
Map Fold: Suspended Slope, 2023. Digital Photograph.
Map Fold: Peak Trio, 2023. Digital Photograph.
Map Fold: Hydra 2, Suspended River, Pyramid Wall, Scroll 1, 2023. Digital Photographs.
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