28 Maps is a book about places and the people that define them. Over the course of a day, February 20, 1999, Django and I (mostly Django) asked 28 people to "draw a map," a request that produced various responses, most of them following a rather similar pattern.
"Would you like to draw us a map?"
"What?"
"Would you like to draw us a map?"
"What?"
"Would you like to draw us a map?"
"Why?"
These 28 people, some of them acquaintances and some of them strangers, some of them young, some of them old, drew us 28 maps of "whatever" they wanted. This freedom confused a lot of the map-drawers.
Some people refused to take part in our map collection. Others drew a map, but avoided being photographed. Some of our map drawers focused on a typical representation of the immediate world around them; others chose to use more intangible themes.

Collecting these maps all over the city of Casper was a day about spatial location and geography, from the lines of the streets to the navigation of living rooms. It was about being somewhere.

-Andy and Django

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