Maps are created by humans for humans. They tell us where we are and how to get somewhere else. They tell us stories in the soil, rivers, forests, and deserts (if we look for them).

Joey Hartmann-Dow's work with maps is a collaboration with earth's history, how the atlases choose to tell it. The political boundaries and labels are not important; look at this illustration of land and water in a new light-- as living beings with hearts and souls. Can we see our own hands and faces in the topography of a valley, our own veins in the meander of a river?