About me
Seth Robert Frame, GISP
I've spent most of my adult life trying to figure out how to hold a place still long enough to understand it.
In the field, that meant GPS units and survey flags, recording archaeological sites across the intermountain West, learning to read landscape as accumulation, layer by layer. In the lab, it meant GIS: turning raw coordinates into something legible, something that could tell a story about where people lived and moved and what they left behind.
These days, at Tyler Technologies, I supervise a team of analysts mapping the daily movements of schoolchildren across the country, which turns out to be its own kind of archaeology.
But I've never been able to stop at the screen. I work in clay at a ceramics studio in Watervliet, pressing bathymetric contours into tile sets and geographic projections into bowls, trying to make maps you can hold. I paint in watercolor. I write creative nonfiction about landscape and memory, and the way places stay with you long after you've left them.
I hold a Master's degree in Cartography and GIS from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a GISP certification. I'm the father of two sons. I walk a dog named Rosie when I need to think.
All of it, I think, is the same project.
