After working on this piece from the day it was assigned I had a difficult time deciding what I wanted to do. I jotted down notes and ideas I had, but nothing came to, nothing seemed ‘right’. I put in work to ‘get out’ the ‘bad’ ideas. The idea to create a map of my walk home with my grandmother hit me as I thought about the place and how I looked at it in memory, something almost from above. The idea felt right, and so began the process of looking through my photos of ‘home’ in Kaneohe, HI, and splining a map on Illustrator – the first I’d used the program. I took ideas from my grandmother’s handwriting (pictured above) as well as perspectives, however, I arrived on a more abstract and all-encompassing idea of the memory which I remember more as a compilation rather than a single instance.
