“Two important characteristics of maps should be noted. A map is not 
the territory it represents, but if correct, it has a similar structure 
to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness”
                                                                         
(Alfred Korzybski)

“What distinguishes the map from the tracing is that it is entirely 
oriented toward an experimentation in contact with the real. The map 
does not reproduce an unconscious closed in upon itself; it constructs 
the unconscious (…) The map is open and connectable in all of its 
dimensions; it is detachable, reversible, susceptible to constant 
modification. It can be torn, reversed, adapted to any kind of 
mounting, reworked by an individual, group, or social formation. It can 
be drawn on a wall, conceived of as a work of art, constructed as a 
political action or as a meditation (…) A map has multiple entryways, 
as opposed to the tracing, which always comes back to the same.”
(Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze)

My recent work utilizes found materials to construct uncertain terrains 
and cartographic landscapes that exist precariously at the threshold 
between the visible and the invisible; simultaneously lost and at once 
found. I am interested in what it is to occupy a space between places, 
and in turn what it is to then negotiate this alternative positioning. 
My interest in maps belies a long-term preoccupation with boundaries.  
These zones of demarcation, both real and imagined, constitute the 
perceived edges of the self and the formation of identity.  Inherent 
within the construction of a map is the fallacy of orientation. This 
intrinsic distortion conceals an alternative that is ambiguous and 
constantly shifting.  In turn, we are never exactly where we believe 
ourselves to be. The physical act of dissection employed in the work 
becomes a metaphor for the intellectual investigation of such spatial 
constructs.  In the same way that there exists a discrepancy between 
the map and what it seeks to represent, the visual outcomes of this 
inquiry themselves create an interstice of difference, between the 
object and the subject.  Connection and disconnection alike are held in 
mutual tension, across a flat traversal plane of fluid associations.