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Cibachromes from the project
Processes of Mapping the World

Shown at the Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University October 2000

Part of the Newington-Cropsey Foundation project The Garden of Great Ideas

Also part of the Frederick Sheldon Traveling project Traditionalizing the Modern Landscape




















































Map Turtle: Graptemys geographica (2000)
Kirsten Valentine Cadieux

Cast Bronze  
Part of the "Garden of Great Ideas" sculpture trail gifted to Vanderbilt University by the Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY (sited in front of East Hall, near the Wyatt Center, on the Peabody Campus, Nashville, TN)
"Map Turtle" represents an engagement with the Britannica "Great Idea" of "World" through mapping and particularly through relations between cartographic symbolization and struggles between competing ways to organize land use.

Map Turtle Image