hic sunt dracones

[ongoing project]

Ancient cartographers sometimes marked the edge of the known world on their maps with special signs. These were unexplored regions, unknown lands — places where lions and dragons were said to dwell, where men with four-meter horns roamed the earth. Such areas were not necessarily believed to be real sites of danger; rather, they marked the limits of understanding — spaces about which nothing could be said with certainty.

The project Hic sunt dracones is devoted to this feeling of the uncertainty that meets you the moment you step outside. In the darkness of the unknown you search for a guiding star, for some sign that the path beneath your feet is real, yet that light may prove nothing more than an ignis fatuus, luring you into the marsh. Here light does not disperse the darkness; it merely traces its boundaries.