A Story is Not a Tree

For my self-portrait, I decided to map my travel routine during high school in Bangalore, India. At this stage, my map is still very incomplete and needs to be reformatted. At first I was confused about what to map. My…

For my self portrait, I mapped my favorite part of my life: communicating. Over-communication is sort of a safe space for me. I’ve always been an over-thinker and speaker, solely because the mere act of speaking is comfortable for me….

To map oneself, there must be a certain level of understanding, that there will be an infinite level of subtraction, from ones complex reality of self, the scale or magnitude of the map is completely fabricated. In the creation of…

This is a less-than-finished base for my hand drawn additions. My map consists of three major points which represent the three cities of my heritage: Buenos Aires, New York, and London. The concentric circles represent the influence these cities and…

Introduction: My work of Mapping is representation of my inner thoughts with external geographic location. This work comes out of a desire to capture the experience and adventure in dreams. I am neither professional nor a graphic artist and had…

My self-portrait is a representation of the division between the places in which I have experienced increased growth, without taking into account the amount of time spent living at each location, as time or longevity is irrelevant in regards to…

   1. Earlier Map with sign system. 2. Detail of notation undergoing transformation into a topography Detail – Inaudible/External – Notated/Domestic – Noise/Uninhabitable Audio: Removed. Sheet music is a form of clear instruction – or so it is often presented….

explication map

The first question that puzzled me while considering what to create for this self-portrait map was that of timeliness and timelessness- at what point does a map, or data, or the truth fail to represent the moment? In order to…

I’m coming to the end of my sixteenth consecutive school year.  I’ve spent the most formative part of my life just being shuttled back and forth between home and school instead of learning how to be a person.  I decided…

    Before conceptualizing my map, I found myself visualizing it in a very abstract way. I was seeing colors and shapes way before I could actually make sense of them. Rather than a traditional birds-eye, navigational map, I wanted to…

For my self-portrait map, I wanted to make something that in some way addressed Katie Holland Lewis’ Tangled Pathways, in which Lewis documented physical sensations on an abstract grid that represented specific parts of her body. I was drawn to…

  My self portrait is inspired by a family property in the mountains of Northern California where I spent much of my childhood (pictured above). Many important events in my life are associated with this place and I have mapped…

Considering the task of this first project was creating a self portrait, I found the easiest place to start was an image of myself. I originally began with a photo of my arm, which would reach towards a landscape. Connections…

It took me quite some time to actually start the mapping of my self-portrait. I am still deciding what I am mapping vs what I am not mapping. The base of my map is a floor plan of my apartment…

I experienced a lot of difficulty when posed with the task of creating a map that represents both myself and something invisible. Part of this challenge stems from the fact that my background in visual arts is sparse: my most…

I really enjoyed getting a chance to do the self portrait project- it was so much fun getting to learn to use photo shop (something I never expected!!) and getting to do a project on which I had so much…

I have a talent for spinning yarns so believable even I forget what’s real, so when I engage in introspection I like to have tools, guidelines, a map. It’s safer; I’m less likely to commit self-idolatry or self-flagellation if I…