Navigate I

2015

M16 Artspace. Drawing exhibition. Canberra

On a road map provided by cartographers and intended to aid travellers navigating across Australia the information is obliterated through inking it out or “Wite-out” all alpha and numerical characters. As hand-drawn marks overlaid the printed characters I reflected on whether locations would still be discernible by the shape of the land mass, or perhaps the scale of the location markers. What remains after defacement leaves the map reader to navigate the island continent’s shape unaided by conventional clues and perhaps ponder the loss of hither-to common knowledge.