The Imprecision in Precision.
Borders are human constructs that shape, order, and divide our world. Though drawn as precise lines on maps, their reality is often vague and layered. The desire for clarity often masks complexity.
Borders aren’t linear—they take many forms, physical and abstract, relying on overlapping systems and actors to function. Our need to categorize the world simplifies what is, in truth, dynamic and uncertain. By tracing how these lines are established, Imprecision in Precision reveals the inescapable ambiguity behind their seeming exactness.
The project exposes how abstract lines, treated as absolute, distort our view of a world where they don’t physically exist—highlighting the tension between cartographic representation and lived reality.
Besides the 700-page book containing all the world’s borders, a growing archive of every line ever drawn to represent borders collected in browsable files, and a world map depicting territorial thinking taken to an extreme.
The Imprecision in Precision.
Borders are human constructs that shape, order, and divide our world. Though drawn as precise lines on maps, their reality is often vague and layered. The desire for clarity often masks complexity.
Borders aren’t linear—they take many forms, physical and abstract, relying on overlapping systems and actors to function. Our need to categorize the world simplifies what is, in truth, dynamic and uncertain. By tracing how these lines are established, Imprecision in Precision reveals the inescapable ambiguity behind their seeming exactness.
The project exposes how abstract lines, treated as absolute, distort our view of a world where they don’t physically exist—highlighting the tension between cartographic representation and lived reality.
Besides the 700-page book containing all the world’s borders, a growing archive of every line ever drawn to represent borders collected in browsable files, and a world map depicting territorial thinking taken to an extreme.