Michèle Saint-Michel
Segment C-D, from A Map of All My Tender Places, 2026
Copier paper, xeroxed polaroid
8.5” x 11”
A Map of All My Tender Places is an affective cartography made with instant film. Rather than mapping landscape, each Polaroid maps sensation: tenderness, memory, rupture, and embodied presence. Each Polaroid is later scanned at a local public library. This scan becomes a quiet collaboration between private memory and public system, extending each point on the map beyond its moment of capture. While rooted in personal experience, the project remains porous and unfinished, inviting others to locate their own tender places.