"from her little room (invisible architecture of Eudora Welty)"

Contributed by: Carrie Schulz, MArch.

"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time,
but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order,
the continuous thread of revelation."
-Eudora Welty

Appropriate(d) Detail circa 1989.


I have had to perform exercises in mapping.
Some for classes. Some for getting lost. Some for telling a story.
All involve sequencing.

Concrete Contrast, Philadelphia 2009




Does a map start with a point?
You are here:
in the center.

Grace Barrier, Philadelphia 2009

Or does a map start with a limit?
This is the edge:

Concrete Landscape, Philadelphia 2009

As you plot points, events, places,
what happens to the space between?
Do you remember the coast when you visit the mountains?


Appropriate(d) Detail circa 1988.


Do you take new surveys to verify old measurements?

Appropriate(d) Detail circa 1989.



(I went down to the lake, then, and gathered old details for new memories.)

Appropriate(d) Detail circa 1989.




Does a map tell you the past?
Do you capture a place, a memory?
Or does it give you a choice to venture out again,
and give cause for a new map?

Appropriate(d) Detail circa 1988.




(I walked a bag of lemons from one house to another: they brought out the light.)

Kingsport, TN 2009

Ten, still:
"All serious daring starts from within"
- Eudora Welty

Many thanks to Carrie Schulz for her thoughtful posting.
Empathinc. is currently exploring issues of (Being) in Space.
Next: "Invisible Architecture and the Topology of the Labyrinth"