METAPHOR: OR, THE MAP
Extract from MAPS OF THE IMAGINATION,
MAPS SUGGEST EXPLANATIONS
TO ASK FOR A MAP IS TO SAY TELL ME A STORY
THEY RECORD WHERE WE ARE, WHO WE ARE AND WHERE WE MIGHT BE
Maps can be metaphors, and so I am thinking about creating ambiguous/strange/ maps, things that DO NOT resemble a regular map or will be helpful in any way.
The extract also discusses interesting points about artistic creation, commenting how it is 'a voyage into the unknown' and how 'in our eyes we are off the map'... Seen as thought my project is about journeys, sequences, and t the EVERYDAY, it is becoming to me to be a 'voyage' of some kind, into the unknown, and ambiguous elements of our everyday life.
He had brought a large map
representing the sea
Without the least vestige of land:
And the crew were much pleased
when they found it to be
A map they could all understand.
Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark.
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