{"id":3333,"date":"2015-05-12T19:32:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2020-03-04T22:14:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T22:14:36","slug":"mapping-the-grid-of-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=3333","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the Invisible: The Grid of Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For my conference project I wanted to go off of my previous map. I was happy with my self-portrait but finally I realized it had too much information. My idea about national identity didn\u2019t come across as much as I initially intended it to. That is why I\u2019m dedicating a whole map to this thought.<\/p>\n

When I started contemplating on how I would want to map this idea of national identity that became prominent when I started college this year, I knew that I wanted to base it off of places around campus. Another thing I new was that because I wanted it to be \u201csimpler\u201d than my previous map, with less information, I wanted it to be more visually impacting.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the semester, when I started collecting materials for this course, I turned to a family friend who used to be an art teacher. She gave me all types of materials she had from those years: from old sketchbooks to beautiful colored pencils. In her package, was a stack of papers with an interesting looking grid printed on them. I knew I wanted to use them in a project. But I had forgotten all about them until I recently rescued the stack when trying to figure out what format I wanted to use for this project. It\u2019s not that I randomly picked them up and decided to use it on the spot- I was able to connect the peculiar grid that appealed me with my idea on national identity.<\/p>\n

As you can see, the grid forms many triangles. With them I wanted to represent a duality that recently became a triality when I started college. The initial duality was composed by my two backgrounds: the Spanish and the American. This third side represents a new state, product of the two original ones. It\u2019s an undetermined state that I don\u2019t fully understand, but that I know is there. Therefore what I have decided to map is this uncertain state that came about when I moved to Sarah Lawrence. So what better place to map this feeling than our campus?<\/p>\n

I decided to take four places around campus where I\u2019ve noticed myself being aware of my national identity throughout my first year here. Those being: Bates, Titsworth, the Library and Hill House. I chose to represent them with a circle for two reasons: on the one hand I wanted to make a contrast with the very geometrical appearance of the grid. On the other, circles tend to be indicative of location (in this sense, also creating a conceptual contrast because on my map they represent, in a very standard and defined way, a place where I feel myself undefined and questioning). I caught myself thinking about my identity for different reasons in each of those places- but that wasn\u2019t something I wanted to map, because ultimately, it comes down to the same feeling, regardless of where I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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