A site-specific map designed for the floor of the Baltimore Contemporary, commissioned as an anchor for curator, Cira Pascual Marquina’s Headquarters exhibition in 2005. Headquarters was an exhibition-as-activist platform that set out to investigate relationships between ghettoized spaces of Baltimore and the prison industrial complex, at the height of the U.S wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The third of Hunt’s conceptual maps made from the research gathered during his filmmaking within the anti-prison movement, “As Flowers Turn Toward the Sun” diagrams relations ghettoization, imprisonment and war-making, its title borrowed from Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay, “Theses on the Philosophy of History.”

The piece was painted on the floor throughout the museum, which was otherwise set up as an “info-shop” and conversation space, while each of Headquarter’s other projects took place in different locations throughout the city with community-based partners.