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The Associated States of Bitacora  (pictured above and below) is an on-going examination of the daily networks that influence my life and formation as a person.  For this work, I logged the personal interactions that I had on a particular day, formed a territory for each person in the log based on their known range of movement throughout the world, pieced the territories together via the currents that moved through them—the water and roadways present—then scanned the entire new map into the computer, where it was finalized and printed.  Each map represented a different day of my life. As the maps amassed, the new versions were pinned over the old, creating both a layered visual history of these constructed territories and a critique of my social network as it changed.

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Remaking the Motherland (not pictured) explores the network of people with whom I intentionally choose to populate my life. This project bears the individualized ranges of movement of 102 friends, family, and acquaintances chosen by the importance I felt each held in my social network.  Some had significantly impacted my path in life, while others had less impacting but more functional roles.   Still others are those whom I don’t know very well at all, but who are impossible to separate from my daily routine.  Territories are pieced together by connecting road and riverways present within respective maps.