R.O.U.T.E. is an acronym. The words represented by each letter make up the sections of the publication. Rhythm, Observation, Understanding, Transformation, & Expression. I imagine each word as a portal, or a journey for artist and witness: an umbrella of perception and its mirror image: the planter for an emergent garden. The words and the symbol came first, then the idea for a publication. My early goals were to create an object; nothing to rival the internet, but tactiley p