# etched on geomantic stone [..] although early modern mapmaking was born of the shogunate's attempts to impose spatial order on its newly conquered realm makers of printed maps and ir publishers - most of whom were urban dwellers of the merchant class - provided the new perspectives and creative energies that fuelled the unprecedented expansion and diversification (/of mapmaking in] the tokugawa period. **+** mapping early modern japan: space place and culture in the tokugawa period (1603- 1868) by marcia yonemoto (brackets mine) price for this concept considered as virtual art experience (insert here) **example artistic statement** robert what: any official human mapping of the landscape is also always a private cognitive mapping of the self as it indirectly mis-relates to its perceived local environment. the critical ever present distance / tension between what might be called ancient 'scientific' attempts at figuring out the lay of the land and the personal often unconscious structuring of the world (as one thinks one knows it) results in a unique cartographic sorrow - a paranomic cognitive melancholy yet still blessed with the geomantic potential for holistic enchantment this map was made to evoke both the ongoing erosion of such a mapping and the advancing radio waves / neural disturbances of scientific (/geoengineering) modernity. it features the kanji 哀 (ai - 'sorrow') and displays invisible energy nodes and lines // republic of bob