About Alex

Alex is a Saint Lucia based land use researcher. She trained in surveying and GIS, but her work has moved more toward older estate maps, present-day boundaries, and the way former plantation land still appears in planning files.

She spends a lot of time comparing old maps with current roads, parcels, and informal paths. She is less interested in treating maps as final answers and more interested in where they stop matching the place itself.

Working approach

Alex works case by case. Each parcel is its own small research question. She prefers slow overlays to fast answers, and is happy to keep three contradictory readings of the same boundary visible in the file rather than resolving them prematurely.

Based in

Castries, Saint Lucia. Most fieldwork is on the western side of the island, between Soufrière and Castries, with occasional projects on the eastern coast.