Bhaval creates abstracted images based on Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion map projection. He writes “it’s more about the way a map looks aesthetically in relation to the composition and colors I use. I like how this view of the world can be so unrecognizable to some, but once you start picking out continents it suddenly becomes […]
Ghita sent us this collaged map made by her mother. She writes,”As expat Lebanese living in Kuwait, we used to travel more than once a year, both to Lebanon to visit family as well as to other parts of the world for holidays. Hence this map is a collage of every single airplane ticket that […]
This truly beautiful, large scale map was created by Scott while hand surveying Discovery Park with a plane table and pacing. He describes some of his process: “I walked as steady a bearing as possible across the park until I hit the shore of Puget Sound. The park is partially an old army fort with […]
The western edge of Tanaloth is dominated by a large mountain while a road threading east through Findlay Pass leads to the city of Tanaloth itself. Nearly everything here is named: ridges, streams, hamlets, and larger settlements such as Burin and Romsey. David drew this for a campaign he ran using GURPS, the Generic Universal […]
This drawing documents the constellations in the northern hemisphere as Harriet would have seen them in October 2000. The drawing was featured in our exhibition, Nowhere, at Arcadia University. Richard Torchia, the gallery director at the time, did a bit of research into celestial maps, and provided the following text to accompany its display. The […]
Grzegorz, an amateur cartographer from Szczecin, Poland, sent this collection of fictional maps depicting imagined islands and continents, each rendered with the care and detail of a serious world-builder. His maps feature invented place names such as Ocean of Dreams [Ocean Snu], Blue Mountains [Niebieskie Góry], and Dragon Mountains [Góry Smoków].
Ken who works professionally as a cartographer has recently begun exploring the creative potential of maps. He sent this image, his third venture into artistic surveying. He writes, “I painted this map on a table for use in a new burrito restaurant that is opening down the street from me. The owner solicited the help […]
Francesca, an artist from Italy, created this map after spending a month in New York last summer. She often found herself walking through various parts of city thinking of specific Regina Spektor lyrics. After returning home, she created this map as a way to remember the journey.
Diana sent us these two watercolors from a series of works exploring visual connections between the islands of Narragansett Bay. She writes that she became fascinated with “the natural cycles of the bay, the islands large and small that dot the bay, and the history flowing in, around, and through.” As an artist she explores, […]
Matias mapped the hidden infrastructure of a small section of Rosario, Argentina — the pipes, fixtures, and systems that quietly sustain everyday life. Rendered in a dense grid of numbers, symbols, and color-coded routes, the map traces what he calls “a network that gives us comfort and happiness,” threading together hot and cold water supplies, […]
Walt, an artist who has spent most of his life in Oklahoma, made this collage map of Tulsa as a meditation on place and belonging. Coins adhered to the surface nod to oil money, blue glass tiles suggest the Arkansas River, and a triangle marked “STAY” captures the central tension Walt describes: an ongoing inner […]
Dan says, “A friend who was driving from Albuquerque to Washington, DC stopped by my home just outside of Raleigh. He had described a bit of Lenoir City on the phone to me the night before he arrived. I asked him more questions about the place once he got here and embarked upon a drawing […]