Rebecca Rigal

The grandson of modernist designers Charles and Ray Eames, Eames Demetrios, has since 2003 been installing faux historical markers— think Civil War battlefields— from Paris, Illinois to the Gervallach Islands of Scotland, building a place-based parallel narrative world he calls Kcymaerxthaere. Artist and "geographer-at-large" Demetrios spent years imagining this mind-blowingly extensive, labyrinthine infrastructure for what he calls, "a global work of three-dimensional storytelling."

Kcymaerxthaere is a parallel universe that intersects with much of our linear Earth. The name comes from the cognate words kcymaara (meaning "the true physicality of the planet") and xthaere (which is a shape with almost an infinity of edges or dimensions--infinity minus 29 to be precise).