Topographic map -The physical features of a place, or the study and depiction of physical features, including terrain relief.

What might it look like if one could apply this way of seeing to a human life- to be able to zoom out and perceive a lifespan in 3 dimensional form? This is what my mind often dwelt on during the final months of nursing my terminally ill mother. Try as I might, it had the opposite effect- it forced me to zoom in.

Her calloused, weathered, ‘praying’ feet became have become the fractal representation of her entire life.

30cm length, ceramic on steel base, 2021