Plattegrond van de opgravingen van Delphi before 1905

This map of the Delphi excavation, by J. Djanides, is rendered with a thin blue line on a pale card stock. Imagine Djanides working carefully, precisely, to delineate the walls and roads, temples and treasuries as they emerged from the earth. I wonder, what was it like to stand there, at that exact spot, and record it all? Think about how they chose to represent this ancient sacred space. It's not just a dry, technical exercise; it's an act of interpretation, a translation of lived experience into a graphic form. Consider the way the Theater is drawn, like a fan or a shell, its curves echoing the surrounding hills. Then look at the Temple of Apollo, the center, a series of carefully stacked rectangles; Djanides captures the human desire to bring order, to make sense of the world through form. What do these shapes tell us? How do they make us feel? Map-making is such a creative endeavor, it is not just exact science, but a way of seeing, knowing, and feeling the world.