Soldered brass, wood, 31 x 26 x 18, 2017.
Created in residence at the Hambidge Center, USA.
North Georgia was Cherokee country until the 1830s, when the state surveyed it into lots, distributed them by lottery, and the Cherokee were forced west on the route that became the Trail of Tears. Surveying is the drawing of straight lines across land that is already inhabited and named. The bar cutting the curves has that character, and the triangle and rectangular frame at the left carry the vocabulary of measurement: angle, edge, enclosure. The curves read as what the lines were drawn across.
