This map depicts a stretch of suburban commercial landscape in Chandler, Arizona with strip malls, big box stores, parking lots, gas stations, and fast food restaurants rendered in precise detail. Every element is accounted for: the drive-through, parking lot stripes, even turning lanes. Walmart, Fry’s, IKEA, Ross, Staples, In-N-Out, Chevron, Starbucks, and a dozen other […]
This anonymous map was sent to us with just a title: “Hi Fi Lo Fi.” It may be of a specific place, but without any text, it’s difficult to make a reasonable guess. Given the title, I’ve come to see it as a comparison between drawing styles with a more contemporary, possibly even futuristic, approach […]
Kelly creates paintings representing a satirical view of what it means to have ventured into the sea change phenomena (in Australia, an intentional move from urban city life to the ‘relaxed’ atmosphere of rural coastal towns). Kelly writes, “I’m inspired mainly by the weekly letters column in the local paper, but have since realized that […]
Marilyn sent this wonderful drawing along with the following email: “This is somewhat of a self portrait. When my grandparents immigrated to the United States from Ireland, the term ‘murphies’ was slang for potatoes, a common Irish name as well as a staple in the immigrants diet. If I had ancestors who were artists, I […]
David mapped his entire personal fanverse, the sprawling imaginative universe built from a lifetime of science fiction, fantasy, and pop culture. The map organizes his fandoms spatially: star systems for Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars, and Star Trek; a “Galaxy of Limbo” for He-Man, Thundercats, and Transformers; and a world map dotted with MacGyver, LOST, and […]