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December: Green in Winter

In the spring of 1860, at the height of his intellectual powers and the peak of his political engagement, Henry David Thoreau created something new. Part blueprint for a grand new work, part scientific chart, part picture of temporal experience, this something—which, following a suggestive Journal entry from October 1859 has come to be called his “Kalendar”—was more a tool than a text.

Map – Issue 33

•Which Way to the Ocean?

Kathryn Smith

I think of collages as poems. Both take existing elements—images, language—and piece them together in new ways.

Map – Issue 30

handwritten letters in a grid on blue paper

Confluence: Grids, Ecology, and 99-Character Statements

Todd Gilens

For a public art project called Confluence I am developing texts and testing reading processes, with the goal of installing mile-long writings along streets where waterways have been hidden underground.

Map – Issue 29

•To See the Veins: My Mississippi Pollinator Garden

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Before we were married, a man named Dustin would drive four hours from Ohio to western New York to visit me. He smiled and laughed so easy. He dug holes in my yard to plant lilies on his days …

Map – Issue 27

Right-side-up triptych photograph of a beach stacked on top of an upside-down triptych photograph of a beach

•Digging to the Antipode

Ann B. Kim

In 2017, I lived in two antipodal places in Southern Spain and Northern New Zealand, only one hour away from the exact antipodal coordinates for each: Rota, in Cádiz, Spain; and Muriwai Beach, New Zealand.

Map – Issue 26

•Inextricably Bound

Tali Weinberg

Bound, a growing installation—a woven material data map—charts, maps, and traces multiple forms of entanglement in the face of anthropogenic climate change.

Map – Issue 25

•Ringing the Changes

Stephanie Strickland

I love the sound of bells ringing out in the air. Highly structured ringing sequences were created by ordinary folk in England in the seventeenth century. Their quest was to perform all the permutations—all the different arrangements possible—of seven bells.

Map – Issue 23

Conjuring, Willing, Napping

Dahlia Elsayed