Katie Cronin

Katie Cronin

I am very surprised by how difficult it was for me to do this sketch. I have always had a terrible sense of direction and no artistic ability, but I have now realized how terrible my memory is as well. I could not remember any street names or true orientations. I have certainly forgotten entire streets that I only wander down occasionally, and things are definitely not drawn to scale. I was afraid to make any truly inerasable marks on the page because I was so unsure of the placement of all of the buildings, so the diagram comes across as light and hesitant. My map is an extremely inaccurate birds eye view of the city. I think this is because I often take the shuttle from place to place, and as a result I only know destinations rather than the streets I take to get there. I definitely only remembered landmarks that I visit often, and that are relevant to me in my everyday life like The Crimson, Starbucks and HAS. Additionally, I include almost exclusively public spaces because I don’t think of my private spaces as places that belong on a geographical map.