Inspired by the rings of water stains formed through natural evaporation, this work emerges from research into process-driven techniques and the interplay between technical control and material properties. Visually resembling topographic maps, these vague shapes suggest both landscape formations and human body forms. An imprint was made with my own hands and arms dipped in dye, providing a basis for an imagined geography that sprawls across grids.
Layers of dye were then applied repeatedly to create lines that suggest the terrain and topography, much like how our understanding of a space builds over time to give us a multi-dimensional perspective of our location. This contrasts with the rationality of institutional demarcation of space, represented by cartographic visual vocabularies. The grids and absence of location information serve to express the abstraction and reduction that are imposed on spatialities. In subjecting organic forms to the rigidity and disinterestedness of cartographic traditions, the work hopes to meditate on the futility of geo-spatial traditions in an embodied experience of placeness.