LIMITS and EDGES
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?
The edges of the paper represent a fault to maps; a terrain like earth is continuous in many directions as its face is a sphere. Paper has its limits and can only contain so much. What happens at the edge of record? Obscured or undiscovered, irrelevant or unknown...the limits of a map become their defined edge.
Cut off, an incomplete map leaves an incomplete understanding. Critical information is needed to define context, provide comparison, and frame what it represents. Without the whole picture, cartography becomes a relic of another time.
Map Fold: Collapsed Road 1, 2023. Digital Photograph.
Map Fold: Illinois Pair 5, 2023. Digital Photograph.
Map Fold: Illinois Pair 4,Collapsed Road 3, Illinois Pair 3, 2023. Digital Photographs.
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