Expose the site

Composite map of traces using my lovely watercolor thingies in illustrator.

Is this really all that I have to show for today?  Really?  There must be something else.  I suppose that I did take this thing into some of the diagrams to see if it told me anything.  I think there is good reason for my selection of the piece of the site on the pass.  Divided by the highway, there are two different forest ecologies, a line between marsh and swamp, a bridge between the two lakes.  Not to mention the multiple traces of human-made connections (stole that from Overlay). 

Some other things I picked out while reading:  bridging different spaces, connect the concrete and the ephemeral spaces, elucidate the connections between human-made and natural formations, walking in a familiar place is revelatory of the cycles – changes, the rhythm of walking – specificity doubling back to generality.

“One does not impose, but rather expose the site…” – Robert Smithson

The last part of the project according to the project statements is to identify spaces, volumes, dimensions associated with cycling.  (Does bi-cycling count?)  Where does the impact diminish and disappear?  The intervention = space to enter the swamp, a destination, a passage between.

“I feel right at home in this stunning monochrome alone in my way.” – Ani, current line as I’m typing…  seems fitting somehow.