'you are here'

'A 100% realistic map of the Mississippi, the Amazon, or the Nile would be 100% as long as the Mississippi, Amazon, or Nile!
 
Mapping like this has me thinking of the large wrapping projects of Christo & Jeanne Claude such as the wrapping of the Reichstag or the islands off the Florida coast.

[https://christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/surrounded-islands/]
 
Then I think how one dot can represent a city of 10 million or 30 million people:  here’s Lima:  ·  .  Here’s Mexico City:  ·  .  Impossible and yet so easy.  We all get it.
 
Here on this poster of the Milky Way Galaxy, this dot is where you and I are – the entire universe represented by one dot:  you are here:  ·  '

-Fragments of Memetica, No. 27, pt. 2  [20210109]