Tu Es Hic is a series of heart shaped map pieces which emerged from the Mercator Revisited (2013) project. The cordiform map was inspired by the heart shaped map by the 16th century cartographer Oronce Finé drawn on a projection now known as Werner-Stabius and is reminiscent of the iconic heart shaped island photographed by renowned French photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand, whose environmental message is amplified by the chosen text from the apocalyptic book The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy engraved on the glass; “Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing the amber currents where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculite patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”

All three map pieces have used the heart shaped map projection to express environmental concerns. The projection is a sixteenth century projection but has been used in recent decades to become a symbol of ecological thought. It has become the emblem of ubiquitous campaigns and organisations; it has been used in recent Twitter campaigns (green heart)… The red cross is an amalgam of a plaster, the international red cross symbol and you-are-here, x-marks the spot.