Play The Ball Where The Monkey Drops It

Play the ball where the monkey drops it, 2020, 51 x 38, pastels, egg tempera and ink on illustration board.

Confronting the issues of the representation of “empty places” in maps, especially the Amazon, and on how simple, repetitive gestures (e.g. trees) in cartography can lead to objectification in representation, ultimately paving the way for the ideological and exploitative transformation of nature into “landscape”. Part of a larger series of iterations.
The title is an appropriation of a sentence attributed to British settlers insisting on playing golf on colonized Indian land.

Click here to see some of the maps that inspired this work and the research that led to it.