Site Specific work progressing from the research undertaken through The Art of Surveying. The work creates 'surveys' of discrete areas, applying the logics of surveying and playing with the imagery involved in this tradition; by embroidering the surfaces of quilts with the Wings’ diagrams and imagery, I seek to re-situate their abstracted logic of surveying and property relations. Displaying this work through textile and in public space it moves the source imagery from the ‘neutrality’ of textual representation and exclusionary academic space to the symbolically charged realm of fabrics, a surface vulnerable to the elements and the movement of the city. The use of textiles immediately evokes bodily, intimate memories while also being inextricably tethered to the web of production it emerges from. In shifting modes of representation, the value statuses of different knowledge practices become dislodged.

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