World Map

 For my map of the world, I have taken one of the most globally ubiquitous images, the equirectangular projection of the earth and placed upon it a similar projection of the cube (both ways involve placing an eye at the center of the object and then angularly defining all points of that object in relation to the eye). My subject position making this map follows a long history of white men representing the world for their colonialist consumption. I am trying to attack the assumed objectivity of the mathematical projection of space onto the 2D surface. To the viewer, it seems absurd and unfamiliar to represent the cube (which we all know so intimately) with this mathematical model (instead of say the model of linear perspective) but in comparing the “accurate” map of the world with that obviously inaccurate projection of the cube, I challenge the assumed objectivity of any method of projection or any way of seeing for that matter.