Christopher Simmons
Two-color screen print on Rives BFK, White, 250gsm
22" x 30"
Signed edition of 25

California is shaped by many things—the entertainment industry, agriculture, tech innovation, social justice. Perhaps uniting all of these is its undeniable psychological geology.

The San Andreas Fault extends 750 miles down the coast of California—the tectonic boundary between the North American and Pacific plates. Quite literally, the west coast is moving in a different direction than the rest of the country. This rift both defines and defies the doctrine of manifest destiny. It represents the cultural force of a people that, having reached the physical limit of the frontier, continue to push forward into new ones.

California lures those with a desire to live at the creative, technological, economic, and cultural frontier of the country and the epicenter of innovation, despite the inexorable cataclysm that awaits them.

This is the first in a series of reductionist “maps” that explore the contours of culture and geography, psychological topographies, and alternative documentations of place.

Unframed.