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A map is a tool for telling stories, asking questions, solving problems, and understanding the world.

It is artwork that goes to work as a scientific and narrative device, to help bring context to our life together on earth.

Sophia Cain

Jun 25, 20219 min read

Redlining: Atlanta, GA

In 1938 the Home Owners Loan Corporation mapped Atlanta, GA in the discriminatory practice of redlining.

Sophia Cain

Jun 4, 20215 min read

Here we use contour lines to take you into a memory, as a way of illustrating the connection between terrain and experience.

Sophia Cain

May 21, 20215 min read

In the middle of Lake Okeechobee, FL is a phenomenon of administrative boundaries that occurs nowhere else in the country.

Sophia Cain

May 14, 20217 min read

Miami is a city that embraces the sea, but it's uniquely vulnerable to flooding, and a major storm could affect people in a variety of ways.

Sophia Cain

May 7, 20217 min read

Wherever humans choose to draw our defining boundaries, we do it within the scope of the boundaries set for us by the edges of the seas.

Sophia Cain

Mar 30, 20214 min read

Tomorrow is my grandpa Joseph's 74th birthday, and to celebrate we're going to take a trip around the world in a map. It's an important...

Sophia Cain

Mar 26, 20217 min read

Our perception of a place can change as the focus shifts away from the land to the subaquatic features that are often hidden from view.

Sophia Cain

Mar 23, 20217 min read

An extensive railway is beneficial to a big city, so it's surprising that the expansive and populous city of Jacksonville doesn't have one.

Sophia Cain

Mar 16, 20219 min read

Between 1935 and 1940, the Home Owner's Loan Corporation conducted detailed surveys of many major American cities.

Sophia Cain

Mar 12, 20212 min read

What if coffee shops were stars and rivers were made of coffee? Let's imagine Jacksonville as a caffeinated night sky.