Mapping our connection to the natural world through drawing and collective memory
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Contribute and help grow PLACE MARK by submitting your memories, or request new drawings of natural spaces close to your heart. This can be done within PLACE MARK or via below
PLACE MARK, Mapping Nature Connections
Interactive Digital Map
2020
PLACE MARK explores our connection to the natural world via drawing and collective memory. Sam maps her drawings, and via public submissions collects memories linked to these places. You, the viewer, can help grow the work by submitting memories and requesting new drawings. This can be done either within PLACE MARK or via above buttons
PLACE MARK will grow as more people interact with it.
The work opens by bringing together 12 weeks of art, produced daily during Sam’s isolation, a collection of drawings that transport our positive ‘outdoor’ memories of nature back into the home during lockdown.
These memories and connections to the natural planet are discoverable on the interactive map: We can reflect and view the artwork, explore individuals’ connections to place, share their memories, and even request places to be considered for new work.
Launched at The Wilderness Art Collective’s 'Wilderness for the Mind' exhibition PLACE MARK will continue indefinitely. As Sam collects and draws more memories, she hopes that by mapping our collective connection to place we can all explore our relationship with nature with a global perspective.