Notes for a New Map is a collection of texts and images relating to the geography of Middle Georgia. The texts are drawn from sources such as D. H. Lawrence, Robert E. Lee, and early Georgia historians. These are paired with icons developed from highway signs, the drawings of William Bartram, and the ceremonial motifs of the Creek Indians. Though not intentionally eclectic, the hope remains that the reader may find some resonance of meaning in the work as a whole. On these pages are the barest seeds of a nascent sacramental study of the land or "deep" geography. And though most of the material alludes to Forsyth, Georgia and Monroe County, no special claims are being made with respect to these sites. It would have been impossible to have begun this "new map" from some other place since these are the beginnings of the author.

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