I was invited by colleagues Mattia Cuttini and Oficinas TK to create a work using a map of an imaginary island landscape as a point of departure. My immediate reaction was to reconnect the abstract graphic to something that we can see with the naked eye. I chose to overlay and mix images I had taken with a digital camera, scratching them as marks of frustration at what I perceived to be the impossibility of the task. The images were taken during a trip to Africa, the textural landscapes of the Namib desert acting as a bridge. The skull of an elephant from the same trip and a dahlia represent smaller, fragile narratives within the larger time frame.