Ancestral Map 1 is a piece of digital artwork by Eric Edelman which was uploaded on January 9th, 2012.
Ancestral Map 1
The saying The map is not the territory has become a truism in intellectual circles. We cannot trust the map, a distillation of the data of our... more
by Eric Edelman
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Title
Ancestral Map 1
Artist
Eric Edelman
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Collage
Description
The saying "The map is not the territory" has become a truism in intellectual circles. We cannot trust the map, a distillation of the data of our senses, to give us the true essence of the territory. The map guides us through the territory because the structure of the map is analogous -- but not identical -- to the structure of the territory. And so we pass through the territory without ever really knowing what it is.
But with regard to the outside world, in any case, we are prisoners of our senses; we must depend upon them to bring us some indirect report of that world, and it is only within our imaginations that we can conceive of it directly.
Within collage, we make or find a map of the imagination. And it is a map to covet. For the collage map fulfills a dream far beyond the dreams of mad cartographers: collage not only corresponds perfectly point-to-point with the territory of imagination; it is that territory, or a part of it.
And when we dream of every such map ever created anywhere -- seen or unseen, known or unknown -- we see with the mind's eye the vast territory that is the collective imagination, the territory that is the mosaic map called Collage.
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January 9th, 2012
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