My work explores ideas of perception through invented systems and structures as a symbolic representation of a metaphorical interpretation of reality. The drawing process operates as a record of how we navigate the man-made systems in which we live our lives. Rooted in an objective structure (the grid), hand drawn marks represent subjective individualities much like our human fingerprint. Working with the technological use of mapping, pattern, and language, I attempt to blind gaps between self and environment, present experience and past record, and open a perceptual window into a world of shifting possibilities.