Kathryn Vermillion's artwork explores both surface and meaning through narrative themes and symbols inspired by maps and the land. Allegorical images and patterns evolve from map forms and memories to translate history and create interplay between the abstract and the representational.This artwork is baed on a map of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, where the mouth of the Mississippi River spills into the Gulf of Mexico. The southern half of Plaquemines Parish was reported to be reclaimed by the Mississippi River as a result of Hurricane Katrina.