I made this series when I started learning French during a residency at Centre Est-Nord-Est, it was inspired by tout le monde, literally 'all the world', meaning 'everyone'. I thought about how this notion of all, of the 'whole world', is something that we can never genuinely represent or even conceive of. Cartography, like language, is always an abstraction; it renders the world comprehensible yet distances us from direct experience of it: we live through its mediation. For the project I asked people to draw a map of the world from memory or imagination, and photographed them in their own domestic space with the finished drawing.