San Francisco-based artist Val Britton constructs and integrates maps with other referenced imagery such as freeways, billboard scaffolding and road signs. The artist uses this process to navigate her past, charting memories and creating a personal record through symbols and metaphors. The artist’s laborious process is created completely by hand, fusing the media of printmaking, collage, painting and drawing and fiber arts within a single composition. Britton is a graduate of the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and is currently an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, Calif. This year, Britton exhibited “Time Lines” at Mina Dresden Gallery and “Near and Far” with 301 Bocana Gallery, both in San Francisco.