My work examines maps/mapping as both objects and as acts. Specifically, what are the systems and conventions of depicting/charting/categorizing and interpreting our environment and experiences? Re-presenting my data through my own lens. In am interested in maps and their ability to combine both fact and fiction, to function both as a record and as speculation. Maps can of course be highly subjective to interpretation both during their development and later through how they are read. All maps are generalizations, that have the dual role of depicting selected aspects, which may in turn be simplified or exaggerated, while simultaneously excluding other aspects altogether, often idealizing their subjects and in many cases offering up a utopian version of reality. The maps agenda, its truthfulness may be suspect, and wholly dependent on the interpretation, manipulation and extrapolation of the mapmaker.

Maps may reflect mythology, narrative or geography through their combination of science and art. They may be seen as portraits of a place, acting as symbolic devices to interpret a complex system. The fact and fiction of how we visualize and elucidate our world, and how that data is ultimately relayed to the viewer is what I am interested in exploring.