Start where you are, and take a different turn. Use Stigen to trace your walk and avoid retracing your steps. Map the edges of your neighborhood. See what the familiar looks like from a new angle.
A manhole cover. A bottle cap. A cat curled on a step. Use your eyes like a compass and see what unexpected things appear when you’re looking for a shape. Turn it into a map of circles — a soft geometry of your surroundings.
Think back to the schoolyard, the summer cabin, the shortcut through the trees. What paths did your feet know by heart? What secrets did the hedges hold? Make a memory map of a place that shaped you — and bring someone else into your world.
An old billboard. The last place to buy film. A shortcut through a construction site. Make a map of things that might not be there next year — or even next week.
Notice where the pigeons strut, the crows hold court, the songbirds perch. Create a feathered map of daily bird business.
A palm tree in a northern town. A boat far from water. A couch on the curb. Map the misplaced and the out-of-place.
A key cutter. A tailor. A single-chair barbershop. Map the tiny commercial outposts still holding on.
Lions guarding doors. Dolphins on fountains. Owls above shop signs. Map the stone, metal, and fiberglass wildlife of your town.
Heart-shaped stones. Rocks that look like faces. Balanced stones that seem impossible. Map your local geology of strange formations.
Vines reclaiming buildings. Grass breaking through asphalt. Trees growing inside abandoned lots. Map nature’s quiet takeover.
