A Land Transforming
2008-2013
The guideline of random movement, roaming, fortuity, and a total disregard of news events creates an experience that feeds off the subtext, a new kind of reality found under the radar. In the age of Facebook, Twitter and others of that ilk in which ‘If you’re not there, you don’t exist’, the Turning Point Project grants a face, form, and dignified existence to those who aren’t ‘there’. In a reality in which Google maps leave no place on Earth unmapped, an urgent question arises regarding new ways of mapping, those lying in the map’s folds.
The series draws a new map using human coordinates to narrate a tale of a country in constant transition