Lordy Rodriguez: Maybe These Maps and Legends Have Been Misunderstood

In his comprehensive exhibition "States of America," now on display at the Austin Museum of Art, Lordy Rodriguez has it all mapped out. What it is, is this country of ours, albeit a version that the artist has rendered fantastically, subjectively, using the sort of cartography he's evolved from road maps: the bright color-coding, the labels of graduated weight reflecting size or influence, lines of demarcation sanctifying political boundaries, other lines charting the myriad routes of transportation.