“The map precedes the territory” -Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulations, 1983.

In language “being” (person) and “being” (place) are confusing terms. One of the most remote philosophical questions combines personal knowledge (“who am I?”), with the idea of traveling in space (“where do I come from?” and “where am I going?”). The idea of nothing is scary. We do not know it, do not have words to describe it, we do not have pictures to identify it. It is the limit of what we are and the frontier of where we are. Cartography reassures us. Allows us to domesticate spaces so we can come and go without getting lost, without ceasing to be or stand. So we name the territories and all that in them is contained. We measure their distances, heights and depths. We map not to lose ourselves and to claim the conquests.