visible marks of earthy imperfection

Autotopographical records, alias Rica Reich

The title of the publication is a quotation from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark (1843)

The surfaces surveyed here are my own.

I map out the extent of my mark, construct an overview and project different worlds into one another.

The result is a series of satellite-perspective images and maps that would be reminiscent of unknown archipelagos were it not for the 1:1 scale, which runs counter to our everyday sense of scale.

There is no system that has not another system concealed within it.

Jeanette Winterson: Art & Lies
plan A