I mailed 77 sheets of paper to myself from within each of Chicago's 77 Community Areas. I used envelopes made of graphite transfer paper to collect traces of touch, travel, machinery and distance, as each sheet made its way back to me (three of them never returned). Together the sheets form a collaborative drawing, made by the city and its boundaries.

[Mouse over individual thumbnails for community area names, click to enlarge]


Chicago 2007

This project was exhibited as part of Mapping the Self at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.