For my whole life I have drawn maps of imaginary cities. In 1980 I began the “Map Project” when living in New York City. I developed a map of a fictional city set in the present and I then projected backwards to the city's beginnings. I drew 5 more maps that intersected the city at various stages in its development. These maps were large, 30” by 16 feet (my working table was a 30” hollow –core door and proved a good match for the rolls of paper manufactured at 30”). The final map in the series of 6 was completed in 1987.

Because the original maps were drawn on white butcher paper I wanted to render the maps in a more durable medium. In 1988 I presented the first map along with other objects in an exhibition in Denver at the Spark Co-operative Gallery.

Map topography sculpture The site as a relief map 36” x 15” x 96” Masonite and pine 1988	The Map Project, gallery view 1988	Maps B & W chronology 6 @ 7” x 48” reductions 1980-87	The Map Project, detail This entire map is 30” x 198” (16’- 6”) x 2” Acrylic on paper, mounted on 6 wood panels 1988
Map Project Sequence