Trajectories of Growth considers the foundation of maps and the possibilities stored in them. The piece explores the way they have evolved with technology and become digitalized and open-source, constantly fluctuating, then challenges notions of maps simply as information sources by looking at maps as materials to create one of a kind objects. “The process was manipulating the area of the West Bank by isolating the Jewish Settlements in it and composing them together to create a new 3d object. The object, a laser-cut plexiglass, was placed into petri dishes with bacteria samples growing on top of it. Simply put, there were two ecosystems living in the dishes, a biological one and a human/political one. The immediate physical outcome of this operation is a new object, an unfamiliar shape of a fictional spatial and territorial land.”–Navit Keren
