Maps are not territory; they are spaces, spaces to be crossed and recrossed and experienced from every angle. The only way to understand a map is to get down into it, to play at the edges, to jump into the center and back out again. We need to trace and retrace its lines by eye and by hand and question it’s every dot until the liminal palimpsest below the surface reveals itself to yield clues of the elusive social mentality within which the map was born. We must lay bare the ideograph in order to grasp the key that it holds. Only then can we use maps as alternate doorways into history.

Karen Pinto

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