There are over eight thousand satellites floating around our orbit. Only half of them are functioning anymore and most are there to provide networks for communication. Only a hundred and change are used for navigation, which maybe suggests that we are a habitual species who don’t roam far from our known paths, or that we have already discovered most of the discoverable paths and we generally stick to them. Or that maybe we’re still using maps or asking someone at a train station which stop to get off or scribbling out a quick map on the back of a coaster. They used to make maps from sticks and shells to navigate between islands and treacherous currents. They used to carve star charts on the tusks of mammoths. Paint them on the walls of caves, emboss them into metal. Scratch symbols on the side of a fencepost for those who follow. The nice thing about holding a map is being able to consider the space you have to cross on the way to the thing you’re looking for. Being able to trace a rarely-straight line between points in nature, wondering about inclines, obstacles, having to consider recent weather, the inhabitants of the area. Tracing a line on a map is the first time you take the journey. The second you do with your feet. Read more on the website. Images courtesy the artist and MARS Gallery