“Heat, Map” (2025) is a series of work created while at Vermont Studio Center during the month of July in 2025. “Heat, Map” charts a tactile topography, one that moves between the granular textures of collage and the ghostly blurs of digital photo libraries, fluid marks, and accelerating vistas. Petals, moons, and obscured landscapes hover in overlays, symbols and snapshots drifting like coordinates in a dream. The title is a contradiction and a clue. “Heat, Map” is not a chart of precision but of pressure. I was able to explore beautiful rivers and wooded waterfall paths while in the summer Vermont sun, and found myself thinking often of the warmth of memory, and simultanesouly the cool detachment of reliving the past through digital means and slick, zero-resistance surfaces. I worked in the studio to distort the edges of this duality, reshaping what we think we know of place, of lineage, of self. These works trace not a geography, but a temperature. They map how memory scorches, fades, and lingers in trace. Resin casts hold time still; mesh veils let it slip through. Doubled moons glint like uncertain beacons. This is a map you feel before you read, a record of presence and loss, of trying to locate something that may never have stayed still long enough to name.