Leah Lovett//Solar: 3°40'36.97"S 55°24'35.80"W

3°40'36.97"S 55°24'35.80"W uses Panoramio, online software which enables anyone to geotag photographs that may or may not subsequently appear on Google Earth and Maps. In an attempt to supplement the partially street-bound views offered by Google, I have uploaded ink drawings I have made of Fordlândia for potential use within Google’s maps. A place that I have attempted to reach but have never been to, Fordlândia is a failed town in the Amazon, now uninhabited, and built by Henry Ford in the 1920s to house workers harvesting the site’s indigenous rubber trees. What’s left of the place can’t even be seen via Google, with the image fragmenting into oversized pixels when you try to zoom. In intimating and digitally grounding representations of space as imagined, 3°40'36.97"S 55°24'35.80"W at once extends and unhinges the conditions of its own display.

Today's featured artist is Leah Lovett with her work entitled '3°40'36.97"S 55°24'35.80"W'.