How do we represent a place?

Place is obviously a where—but can it also be a who? How about a when? Is place more of a history…or a happening? Maybe place is just GPS coordinates—a route—a way to get from A to B. Or maybe it’s the culmination of an ancestry, or even the sensation of a particular kind of breeze on a particular kind of night.

To investigate the meaning of place is, inevitably, to face a barrage of questions—What is home? What is neighborhood? Do our places belong to us, or do we belong to them?—and only in answering those questions will we begin to define the territories—literal and otherwise—of our selves, our histories, our narratives, and our people.