_„… every map displays a specific world; so does it display the world as it is, as it was, as it will be, as it could be, or as it should be?“_ (Christian Jacob: Towards a Cultural History of Cartography, 1996)

  
One of the peculiar phenomena of European science, literature and art since the 19th century is the persistent presence of figures who work as field surveyors and who optionally measure or redesign the topography of real and fictional spaces. Mapping becomes an external reality and archival device for objective knowledge and reality. _„Maps are statements about the physical nature of the world, its shape and its limits. They display beliefs or concepts about the nature of the world and how it can be depicted.“_ (Christian Jacob) The works of this series are playing with several respective ideas of the predictability, representability and controllability (or uncontrollability) of the world. 

The so called „fractal landscapes“ are based on a computer generated algorithm of surfaces that imitates the appearance of a natural terrain, which was first introduced by Benoit Mandelbrot in the late 70´s. The technique of carving in these woodcuts also correspond with the so called Perlin Noise, a type of gradient noise used in computer graphics. 

  

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