Good By Dan

Daniel made this map as a boy, copying it from a Shell road map of Ghana and coloring it in with crayon. He labeled the country’s regions and towns as best he could, working from the reference. At the time, Daniel was helping out Mark, a fisheries advisor from the UK who had recently arrived […]

Ishkabibel

Ishkabibel is an imaginary place Mary and her cousin, Marianne, inhabited when they were very young. This beautiful watercolor is Mary’s reimagining of their childhood haven, created as a gift for Marrianne’s birthday.

Noisy Castle

Jules drew this spare map to guide fellow mail-art correspondents to the ruins of Noisy Castle, near the village of Celles in Belgium — a place he describes as his chosen spot for a first meeting with people he knows only through the post. The map itself appears to be drawn on the back of […]