MAPPING LOST

The experience of being lost and mapping holographic adventures

“The sensation of being lost can rise slowly or hit you suddenly – as a vista smacks away the mental image of what you are expecting to find. In the collision of where you think you should be, and where your surroundings suggest you are (or arenʼt), you are lost. Being lost is being within a state of disorientation, an experience where the concept of place conflicts with the evidence of the surroundings.” — An Expert from Martina’s PhD

In exploring cities and creating holographic mapping I look for patterns, physical rhythms of resonance that shape the experience. 

Encountering these holographic images, moving around them to assemble the scene, stretches out the perceptual process. Within the activity of resolving the scene we can heighten the awareness of our perception.

The aim with compositions is similar to the practice of ostranenie [making strange] an artistic  response that was articulated in the 1920s and 30s to question the ʻautomatisedʼ consciousness or direct representation of the photographic image. With the holographic scenes I am suggesting that perceptual reality is dynamic by mapping experience around anchors and resonate forms. 

Mapping is an activity that I engage in to create artworks and build my understanding. I encourage you to map-out a relational structure, or diagram an experience…