This body of work was created alongside my undergraduate thesis. When disassembling and borrowing marks to use in a new manner, I am not the artist but the assembler. I take one draftsman’s symbol and pluck it from its intended vista, not because of its meaning or use but because of its value as a form. To a mapmaker, their marks are a quintessentially ordinary image, the everyday occurrence, a sleight of hand to paper. An interesting thing happens when you take that image and place it under a new rule. If I am to combine it with a canvas its loyalty is no longer to direction but now to aestheticization.