You Are Here by Katharine Harmon
“Out of one territory, one map, can bloom a thousand geographies, and all the technologies that have allowed those new maps have come to fruition in a relatively short time. One is tempted to remark about how rapidly our world has changed, but what has really changed, even more rapidly, are our ways of seeing this world. With our telescopes and our microscopes, our remote-sensing satellites and our fluorescing molecular probes, we have expanded notions of the charitable world, creating a holistic, multidimensional cartography. There are maps to anywhere: chromosomes, galaxies, the brain, the cell, the spaces between atoms, cracks in the double helix, the edge of time. If maps invite travel, these new maps inspire journeys of an altogether different, more associative sort. At the same time, they still connect to our traditional geographies and are potential destinations of the orientating process; they lend themselves to a form of bushwhacking that is more interior, philosophic, imaginative.”
—Katharine Harmon, 2004
