Le Guin’s life was full of cats ... There were also numerous stray and sickly cats that Le Guin took in, fed or befriended, because to her, felines were among the greatest teachers a person could find ... One should never underestimate Le Guin.
The maps speak to the breadth—that larger reality—of Le Guin’s work, and the practice ties back to her family, too; Le Guin’s father Kroeber tracked Native American languages and cultural relationships through mapmaking.
In the gallery space, Le Guin's maps are looked at in isolation rather than relating directly to a text ... Much of Le Guin's work is grounded in a belief that humans and other species are completely entangled with their natural environments.