Jane Webb
Very basic attempts at mapping
I've been thinking about maps because, although I've got a lot of maps, I really haven't found my experience of the landscape they portray to be in any way as logical or clear. I wondered what maps were for and thought about how maps suggest that someone else has been in the location that we are now in. Maps are to find our way... but they always assume that we notice the same things. Also, what if there are no maps, what if the territory hasn't been found or noticed before? I thought about my journey to work and realised that, far from my experience of it being like it was on the map, I didn't really register much of it but instead noticed only one or two things. This tree is on a hill just as you come to the junction I need to get off at, and I used it as a marker when I first began my job, as I could never remember the official number of the junction.
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