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Home > Journal > Issue Nine > Measure Measure - Aoibheann Ní Mhearáin Jürg Conzett wanted to show us where he came from, and so he began his October lecture with maps. The town of Chur was located, between Milan and Zurich, among the mountains to the east of Switzerland. The maps indicated too, the influence of the cartographer, Edward Imhofer, on his thinking and work. Maps are a method of measuring, they give weight to certain things. The production of maps is determined by how we look, not by what we see. Their representation therefore is an interpretation of a method of looking, of values accumulated. Edward Imhofer was fascinated by ways of looking, by ways of representing things, to reveal a little of what exists. In his studies Imhofer demonstrated how the truest rendering of the landscape of his maps - the slopes, the peaks and the valleys - came when they were rendered as though the sun were shining from the north. The studies were close and careful. The results evidence how he weighted the importance of perception, of the psychological dimension in our interpretation of phenomena. Jürg Conzett enjoys this way of looking.
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