Chung’s maps visibly capture the artist’s efforts to both distill and express the density of history and experience that the 2-dimensional cartographic surface circumscribes. Her maps interweave historical and geologic events with spatial shifts and future predictions, revealing cartography as a discipline that draws on the realms of perception and fantasy as much as geography. At the same time, Chung’s works render exquisite and reticular topographical forms that convey a sense of organic growth, like a fungal spread under the lens of a microscope — they consistently unpack veiled pathologies of environmental degradation due to master planning and nation building projects, the fraught legacies of colonial ‘civilizing mission,’ and the riven nature and human landscapes of geopolitical violence and climate disasters.