In October 2004 I began an entirely new body of work quite different from all of my prior work as an artist. I call them Cartographic Photoassemblages, and my process is simple. I first use a little digital camera to systematically photograph one or more planes, such as the floor of a room. I then download and stitch my images together on a digital canvas, adjusting them as freely as necessary so they render the subject to my satisfaction. The final pigmented inkjet print is the ensemble of these individual images as a single image. A print, then, does not represent a single moment in time but can represent hundreds, over a length of time measured in hours, sometimes from different days.

Franz Jantzen September 2005