California, The San Andreas Fault

A work of deep mapping produced by Cliff McLucas for The Three Landscapes Project

"Over nine months I sought ways of apprehending this landscape as an alien or outsider in a variety of ways and media. This production-based research resulted in a large graphic or deep map, as well as a journal.

The large graphic, which in its full size is 8 feet high and 42 feet long, is a work towards an idea - of the deep map. It seeks ways of combining a variety of mappings, aerial surveys, photographs, journal and journey, with a single figure in the landscape and several orders of text. It is the beginnings of an attempt to develop new techniques for representing places, peoples and events – techniques that are more complex and (dis)located than those associated with the landscape painting, the photograph, or the conventional map."

In this it is a critique of the landscape aesthetic.

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