Remote Location 1:100,000
Paula Poole and Brett Stalbaum
July 30th - August 4th, 2K4 (Box Elder County, Utah, USA.)
For the Center for Land Use Interpretation Wendover residency program,
July 29th - August 15th, Wendover, Tooele County, UT.

A map consisting of 36 geo-referenced tiles showing the terrain
surrounding the CLUI Remote Location were encased in acrylic resin. The
one centimeter square map image on each tile represents a one kilometer
area, creating a 1:100,000 scale between map and terrain. The tiles were
then cracked out of the resin, cutting the map into 36 separate tiles.
Living on site for most of 5 days, Brett collected data in the field
while Paula remained at the SW corner base camp to process the data into
information.

The daily process was as follows. Utilizing GPS, Brett hiked to each of
the 36 points in a 6 kilometer grid surrounding the CLUI Remote
Location, hiking approximately 70 Kilometers in the process. Upon
arrival at each site, the geo-referenced tile was left in the center of
the one kilometer square it represents, and the tile was photographed to
record the local land surface. A soil sample was also taken at each site
and the UTM coordinates were recorded on the sample. The samples were
returned to the campsite every day for Paula to process into a 6x6 array
of paintings to be displayed in the CLUI Wendover Exhibit Hall #1. Also
on display are the photos of the tiles showing their situation against
the local soil in which they were placed, and a corresponding digital
map of the terrain produced with C5 software, showing at a larger scale
the same map images as on the tiles, corresponding to the soil
paintings. The exhibit invites visual comparison of the three
representations of the landscape, revealing connections between the data
about the landscape and the landscape as data, and synthesizing these
into an informational configuration bound in a very precise way to the
original landscape.

For more information, please see:
http://www.paintersflat.net/remotelocation.html

For directions to the exhibit hall:
http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/alm/wenddir.html