The Map is expressed, over time, in successive layers, each one replacing its predecessor. The process of developing and revising a panel results in several iterations of that panel.

The Base Layer is divided into four phases:

A. The blank page is an 8 by 10 inch patchwork of paperboard or is a sheet of heavy paper on which is a photo or a lumen print.

B. The blank is gradually covered in successive bands of painted color.

C. The paint is replaced by 1" squares of paper collage.

D. The collage is replaced by 1" city squares in:

1. Green with 400 new inhabitants

2. Red with 800 new inhabitants

3. Grey with 1200 new inhabitants

4. Black with 2400 new inhabitants

The next layer is The Void. Its initial phase is composed of irregular pieces of plain, white collage. That is followed by a layer of 2" squares of black-and-white collage. On that layer 1" squares of grey city form followed by 1" squares of black city.

The third layer is called The Red Dimension and is expressed by irregular flame-shaped solid red collage.

Black Ness, composed of 2" squares of black collage, supercedes The Red Dimension.

Then follows The Ziggurat Phase in which successively smaller squares of collage, starting with 2 by 2, are stacked on top of each other. That layer, and the ones that follow, have yet to manifest themselves on The Map.

The Flood, represented by irregular pieces of blue collage, and Re-Birth, composed of hand-torn pieces of kraft paper, are the final stages in the Map cycle.

Then the whole process starts over with new Paint Bands.