Clifford McLucas for the Three Landscapes Project Stanford 2001.
Stalking the San Andreas Fault.
Satellite photography, geological survey, cartography, diaries, radio transcripts, miscellaneous ethnographic snippets, digital joiners.
The original deep map was 42 feet long and 8 feet high and hung outside our lab in Stanford Archaeology Center. This is one of its thirteen panels.
A contemporary chorography -
"Reflecting eighteenth century antiquarian approaches to place, which included history, folklore, natural history and hearsay, the deep map attempts to record and represent the grain and patina of place through juxtapositions and interpenetrations of the historical and the contemporary, the political and the poetic, the discursive and the sensual; the conflation of oral testimony, anthology, memoir, biography, natural history and everything you might ever want to say about a place …"
Mike Pearson and Michael Shanks, Theatre/Archaeology (Routledge 2001) page 64-65
Coming soon - chorography.org ...
 by Michael Shanks
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