Our maps act as a document for the dialogue we have had with each person. We guide them through the process of articulating their past & future. We listen to their journeys, we ask questions and they ask questions. They express this is a new experience for them, to retrace their steps & reflect on their geographies. One said to me today, as he took a step back from his constellation of homes he has lived in, “I had no idea the distance between them”. He seemed impressed with himself, possibly this realization will stay with him. He might now have a new sense of time and space and connections, relationships? We discussed each point on the map & studied the other lines drawn.
Another quote from last week, describing his work, as if to survey the instant beauty, " Two bodies of water surround El Monte in my United States"
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