“Mapping is neither secondary nor representational but doubly operative: digging, finding and exposing on the one hand, and relating, connecting and structuring on the other. Through visual disclosure, mappingboth sets up and puts into effect complex sets of relationship that remain to be more fully actualized. Thus mapping is not subsequent to but prior to landscape and urban formations. In this sense, mapping is returned to its origins as a process of exploration, discovery and enablement. This is less a case of mapping to assert authority, stability and control, and more one of searching, disclosing and engendering new sets of possibility. Like a nomadic grazer, the exploratory mapper detours around the obvious soas to engage what remains hidden.”
My project has mainly been about investigating the landscape through various mapping. The Icelandic landscape is foreign to me and I have tried to understand the landscape from a distance. The area I focused on is the geothermal area at the Hengill volcano. The project has been more of a method study than a program study. The intention was to develop my own ability to map a landscape and develop my own working method.
Non-hierarchical registrations of the landscape
orthogonal map of geothermal area in Iceland.
Speculative map of geothermal area on Iceland, based on the book Terra Forma by Fréderique Ait-Touati