"Uneasy Finder," Chapman Gallery, Kansas State University, 2007
This project involved documenting Dallas's and Oklahoma City's "unmapped" zones. On my first trip to Dallas I bought one of those plastic maps and soon discovered that they are heavily abridged (pretty much half of the city limits left off for Dallas). So I decided to find out what lay "off" the map and how that might be different from one city to another. I had to arbitrarily name areas to keep my location straight, and made video following a highlighter marker I used to on the neighborhood maps I used to keep a record of my path; I made "postcard" prints and arranged them according to the "discovered" sections of town. Wall drawings of OKC and Big D diagrammed the areas I mapped.
My names for these invented sections were noticeably absent so as to allow interpretation (from the postcards' images alone) of what kinds of neighborhoods might have been left out. Arranging without naming also offered questions regarding the way we form perspectives of any particular place. The central desk in the installation includes pseudo-promotional videos for the places left off the tourist map.