How a Mapmaker Who Rejects Cartography Can Help You Find Yourself | Inverse
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Dennis Wood, l’homme qui voulait tuer les cartes.
Whether you’ll admit it or not, it’s fairly common to wonder — in anxiety’s throes, the solitude of a dark bedroom, and possibly your entire 20s — something along the lines of: How do I find myself? It may not be in those words, and it may not be so well-defined, but it remains common to ponder one’s place in life, one’s metaphorical location. Inverse turned to Denis Wood for help.
It wouldn’t exactly be accurate to call Denis a cartographer; it is, however, safe to say that he thinks and writes about maps for a living. He’s got a collection of “literally tens of thousands of maps” in his home, he says, but the maps he makes himself are…atypical, to say the least. Wood’s maps resemble none of the maps you’ve ever seen before: in them, Wood hones in on the obscure, the unobvious, the heretofore unmappable.
In his own words: “I’ve never really thought about myself as a mapmaker.”