Friday, January 19, 2007
In Cosgrove's introduction to the book, and in Corner's article, time jumps out at me as an important relationship to the act of mapping. Just the pile of maps we have of Venice in the studio speak to how apparent time is in their creation. Someone could put the maps in chronological order relatively easily. Each map speaks of the time in which it was created. Many build on information that already exists in previous versions. Both writers refer to finding new relationships in mapping, Corner more specifically in his breakdown of his various answers to a new way to map that more deeply explores relationships outside the purely physical. But I think time presents a more complex problem to consider. It is physical, yet it is rarely mapped as a physical presence, outside perhaps series of things shown to be progressively different. I am wondering then about the possibilities of creating new ways to generate maps that account for time. Must it necessarily be linear? Richard Long's Seven Day Circle of Ground, and the 'drift' ideas Corner presents break time barriers; I'd like to do more of that.
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