ground control

Throw over-population and over-reaching technology into the mix and we have a volatile situation: the world is changing exponentially. Post-industrial decline is but one thing to call it.

How to make sense of all of this? You could start with a map. You do not have to however: you could just hide up in the hills where you do not need one, but I digress. A year in Morocco loosened my grip and I started to place the same dichotomies in a larger framework, recognizing that the world is shrinking and becoming inter-connected, amid signs of inexorable change. A plastic bottle is made in China and sold in the Middle East, but the Fez medina does not have a map. Maps started creeping in as imagery in my work, no longer useful objects but markers of loss and disorientation.

Written in 2013…