Path finding - crypto-cartography

Getting directions (with the help of Google)

This series uses place names and google directions to decipher relationships between realty and reality, labels and territory. This experiment in crypto-cartography focuses on the disambiguation of superencipherment. Like a virtual derive, these attempt to milk the secret meanings from maps and lay bear the semiotics of street names. Click each thumbnail for a larger map.

from war to peace through understanding	avoiding race in New Orleans
no direct route from arts to abundance	painters hope that arts benefit humanity
the path from hope to desire	from habit to destiny is a dead end street
from flood to recovery through community and industry	hard-edged abstraction (lakeview)

David Sullivan 2008 www.swampmonster.org