mental urban map connecting memories with places

program:urban reflections location:multiple basics:maps, illustrations area:NA year:2023 in team with:NA

The project is a research and a reflection on how built environment shapes us and impacts us throughout our lives. It includes depictions of aerial maps with cut out places that represent memories, sometimes from the same period of time, sometimes not connected at all. It emphasizes the randomness of our memories whithin the places that we inhabit and how they layer throughout our lives. It is also an attempt to show how disappearance or restricted access to these places of memory impacts us, in my personal experience, of course.

The project is inspired by:

- Sol LeWitt’s “Not to be sold for more than $100. Folds, Rips + Maps”

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Sol LeWitt’s work

- Nick Cave’s documentary “20 000 days on Earth”

- what do you fear the most?

- my biggest fear I guess is losing my memory... because memory is what we are you know. and I think that your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.

from “20 000 days on Earth”

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part i: the places that remain and are still accessible
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part ii: places with restricted or no access, destroyed places

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designed & built by masha vakula