The Cartography of Memory: The Art of Christina McPhee In the delicate intersection where geological permanence meets the ephemeral nature of human memory, the work of Christina McPhee resides. Born in Los Angeles in 1954, McPhee has spent her career constructing visual narratives that do more than merely depict a landscape; they inhabit it. Her practice is deeply rooted in the ancestral lands of the Chumash and Salinan peoples of Southern California, a connection that imbues her work with a profound sense of site-specificity and spiritual resonance. To encounter a McPhee piece is to enter a…
A chart of Christina McPhee's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
