Here is another close-up view of one of the maps. The color scheme is particularly disorienting in this map. Limiting myself to four colors from the fabric sample (the underarm of the background child) creates a very bizarre and fascinating limitation. I began coloring this drawing by filling in the hair with the blonde-ish yellow color. I then proceeded to fill in other areas with the intention that no adjacent fields would be the same color. This simple rule dictated the color decisions, forcing me to use certain colors that don't "belong" or are unsettling to our expectations of the image. For example, the front child's face color is read as "white" but the brown in the neck is read as "black."

How much an audience will contemplate this point is another story... I think that, generally speaking, the audience response to Driving Directions was more formal and traditionally aesthetic than I had intended. I think the various conceptual components confused and puzzled people (which is certainly not a bad thing). But the framework for extending and translating 'mapping' is bold, clumsy, and important here... Driving Directions failed to assuage my critical perfectionism but it also laid out an experimental foundation for later works like Given Site.