Cartographies

Landscapes, mapping, Participatory learning, RESEARCH, wayfinding, FIELDWORK, the road

Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
William Least Heat-Moon

Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.
Lucy Lippard

The road goes on forever, the party never ends.
Joe Ely

The landscape at 55mph from a benchseat in a passenger van. Elbow out a window, one hand riding a wind-wave, parking lot picnic gourmet. Scan the radio and listen to the swap meet. New country or old Americana, talk radio or open lines. Static. Noticing the weather, calling out the clouds. Choose any horizon and it tells a story. Those sandhills, that fence-post, these prairie potholes. We’ve got to keep learning, keep listening, keep looking after one another.

Featured Projects

The Sand in Your Shoes

What Kansas Means to Me

Finding Way

Blue Prairie, Blue Echoes Ring

Cabin-Time: Little Wild Horse

Prairie Picnic Party

Van School

1 Ton Trick Pony

The Road Goes on Forever The Party Never Ends

Circumambulation

High Plains Dirt Track

Van School Curriculums

Here Now

Cabin-Time: Archipelago

Dear Old Man of the Edgelands

Natural Beauty Road

Crooked Letter Crooked Letter

Kansas Field Arts Forum

Land Tides, May the Blessed Ones Lead Us from Darkness Into Light

Well Make Me Down, Make Me Down, Make Me Down a Pallet on Your Floor

The Loneliest Highway

Divana Sonus Ruris

Only Tides Will Tell

They Say There’s Nothing Out There But Wheatfields Anyway

I Can See the Forest, I Can Be the Trees

Star Route 1

50 States for 50 Lovers and 50 Ways to Leave Them