I have been awarded a one month Jan and Frank Cicero artist-in-Residence fellowship at the Newberry Library, Chicago for spring 2023. The fellowship will support my work and research for an upcoming artist’s book with the working title of “Navigational Tools for the Willfully Lost”. I will concentrate my studies on the 16th century navigational and cosmographical texts of the Edward E. Ayer collection. The Ayer collection contains a large number of texts with paper tools such as the Apian Cosmographia 1584 and many more. My project will likely include a combination of paper volvelles, pop-up maps, and prediction/explanation devices relevant to our current time of plague, one not only medical but political, ecological and more, and completion is expected by late 2023, early 2024.