{"id":1771,"date":"2010-06-08T16:13:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T23:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/06\/jennifer_mao_-_the_memory_map\/"},"modified":"2010-06-08T16:13:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T23:13:27","slug":"jennifer_mao_-_the_memory_map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/06\/jennifer_mao_-_the_memory_map.html","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Mao &#8211; The Memory Map Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You draw, she embroiders your results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennifermao.com\/works\/the-memory-map-project\/\">Mao<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Map-making is an assertion of the finite &#8211; an attempt to physically embody knowledge of structures and boundaries&#8230;They are created with the implicit understanding that the depicted space holds a degree of permanence.<br \/>\nIn asking individuals to map familiar places from memory and embroidering the results, I am interested &#8230; in creating a non-reproducible illustration of a subjective memory, inverting the traditional practice of mass-production associated with conventional maps. I am also interested in the points where memory fails &#8211; the blank spaces, unevenness, and skewed proportions that reflect our own hindsight biases and remembrances.<br \/>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jennifermaomem.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/jennifermaomem.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"475\" width=\"475\" \/>To participate:<br \/>\nMake a map of a familiar place from memory on a piece of paper up to 8.5&#8243;x 8.5&#8243;. Send scans\/images to:<br \/>\njennifer.s.mao[at]gmail.com<br \/>\nOr, if anonymity is preferred, by post to:<br \/>\n1140 18th Ave, Apt #205<br \/>\nSeattle WA, 98122<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You draw, she embroiders your results. Mao: Map-making is an assertion of the finite &#8211; an attempt to physically embody knowledge of structures and boundaries&#8230;They are created with the implicit understanding that the depicted space holds a degree of permanence. In asking individuals to map familiar places from memory and embroidering the results, I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}