A Surveyor’s Map
1997
Wood, steel
Jan Rosen Queralt and Roma Campanile
Baltimore, Maryland
Annmarie Garden Collection
Artists’ Statement: The voice of memory is a composite and we have designed an experience that reflects this. The boardwalk through the woods provides an experience of place at different levels and from different perspectives. This work of art reflects the roads, crossroads, zig zags, and benchmarks that constitute one’s memories, like a surveyor’s map. Process, change, and memory are integrated in the experience. Inscriptions taken from interviews with residents from Calvert County reflect the community at large and its collective memory; over time the words will be worn away by the footsteps of others, just as a memory can fade with time.