I define chora as an actual place that has some meaning for us. For my topos map I used the city of Seattle as a place that has no meaning for me, but at the same time I placed the landscape in my hand, which showed road like lines from the buildings to the lines of my hand, however, this is still defined as topos because as stated previously it has no special meaning. Even though the city is placed in my palms it just shows that this place exists, but the significance of the palms also demonstrates that like the lines in my hands the buildings and roads all lead to a place which in this case is the city of Seattle. For the next assignment I plan to make my topos map more chora like by making the buildings more distinctive and instead of placing it in my palms I plan to place it on a number tag which was used for the Firefighter Stair Climb for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society which takes place at the Columbia Center in Seattle. In this case my topos map transforms into chora because it becomes a place where it has meaning for me and it is no longer just the city of Seattle because it becomes something much more significant to me. As a result of the number tag, the buildings and the landscape become a place of meaning unlike the topos map which just showed the landscape of Seattle.
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