maps make the mind.

I have always seen Photography as a mapping - as the most powerful maker of minds and  mindsets .  Mindlessness too. Maps and the idea of mappng, then, have always  interested me. For their politics. 
For their very biased and political projections  . Not just of the world but also projections of  political power. 

Maps are used politically . The political  Mapping has to be uncovered, recovered and reclaimed. Remade to be more than just a political tool. 

 "The idea of the world may be common to all societies, but different societies have very distinct ideas of the world and how it should be represented," he writes. Garfield sees the history of cartography as a way to understand political influence too. "It is always about the proprietorial impulse," he said. "A map says not only 'We know all this', but often 'We own all this' too."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/sep/22/why-maps-shape-our-minds



 Two Maps from my "Collection".

                                     India mapped. As Mother India.  A fiery Hindu  India.

                                   An Other Map - of a Muslim pilgrimage in Hindustan. .