Alexandria, on paper
Posted on Dec 10, 2007 in preambulatory | Permalink
Assembled satellite views of Alexandria. Some kind of return to Flatland? Intersecting plans: screen over paper sheet over GPS over streets over topos over geology. A particular lay of the land, one way among many to visualize the city. Phase I of a multi-phase iteration. One set of data, perhaps no more or no less significant than any other. What is represented? What is not represented? Always careful not to privilege the map, that totalizing abstraction of “space,” so often devoid of time, of history, of multiplicity, of diverse and contradictory subjectivities. But potentially instrumental, a way to open up (tentative) interpretations of a place. Which is what all this is about now, isn’t it?