Making Art From Maps: Inspiration, Techniques, and an International Gallery of Artists

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None of the neighbouring maps depicts contiguous areas as we know them to be positioned on the globe. Cross-curricular connections came up as well: two students chose Alaska because their English Language Arts class was studying a book about the spirit bear. Each poster is designed to be one-of-a-kind, taking inspiration from the song’s characteristics and blending it with your personal touch.

v] The relationships between Foucault’s work on spatiality and geography, knowledge, and the critique of power have been elaborated by Stuart Elden and Jeremy Crampton (2007). O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

New editions of popular maps continue - Durham University and the Whisky Map, which is now on it’s 9th edition! I offer a subjective and exploratory reading of each artwork, and consider the modes of visualisation that are at stake in terms of their making a critical response to the phenomenon of drone viewing. Masks (2004-6) is a large series of works, one strand of which is formed of Venetian full-face masks painted with maps of Mediterranean islands, and Knowledge (1998-2000) is a cycle of frescoes and decorated globes depicting changing conceptions of the form and extent of the terrestrial globe through history. The Apollonian gaze is conceptually positioned at the height of a body in orbit around the earth, and this also endows it with a high degree of mobility.

The intitial black and white ink drawing was printed out for children to colour in, giving the grown-ups a little bit longer to sample the delights on show at the festival. This viewpoint denotes the contemporary and historical phenomenon of remote viewing, through a range of technological practices, carried out by means of remotely piloted military aircraft. I use them for decoupage, from large items such as map chairs to smaller things such as Mason jars, cookie tins and shells.Kozloff is known for exploring feminist themes in her artwork, and was an original member of the Pattern and Decoration movement, prominent during the 1970s and 80s, particularly in the US. The time-lapse video below shows how I draw my maps: detailed planning in pencil, then drawing in pen. Even though many of the maps are out of date and not of actual practical use, I keep them as crafting and upcycling resources.

ADIZ’ means, to me, demilitarised zone, and having never been in one, it prompts me to imagine barbed wire, planes overhead, and armed guards in watchtowers, the Berlin Wall. Artist Ed Fairburn, left, shows CBS News correspondent Ian Lee some of his work at his studio in Southampton, England. In terms of legibility, the Apollonian gaze renders visible the earth as a whole, as an entity in space.

Harley’s position on the question of how to define the map acknowledges that “locating human actions in space remains the greatest intellectual achievement of the map as a form of knowledge” (Harley and Laxton, 2001, p. We talked about places he missed, and he would spend hours virtually traveling, with Google Maps as his guide. Local residents were invited to suggest features they wanted to see on the final piece and excerpts were included from poems by Simon Armitage. The view from nowhere is preferable because it foregrounds the abstractness of the conceptual viewing position, which sees as though from nowhere. Last time I talked about how maps aren’t just about roads and rivers, they can also celebrate memories and stories.

For a less positive discussion of Harley see the introductory essay to Harley’s posthumous collection of essays, The New Nature of Maps, by J. opens it to processes of interpretation developed through structuralism, an approach also pioneered by Denis Wood. London by Gareth Wood aka FullerFuller drafts impressionistic “mind maps” of places where he has lived.Whistler village, Canada, by James Niehues One of the most prolific ski-trail mapmakers at work, Niehues is known for extreme attention to detail, giving unique form, structure and shadows to trees, or adding cars to resort parking lots. Interestingly, one of Apollo’s less-frequent attributes in classical sculpture is a globe, symbolising his universality (ibid). The temporality of this viewpoint is nuanced; from its position external to the earth, multiple time zones may be viewed simultaneously. I build from their analyses to conceptualise the drone’s eye view as being far from an isolated position of weaponised agency, but rather a dispersed, networked and fully material mode of viewing and acting at a distance. By the end of the summer, we had relocated to the US, and for the first time in my professional life, I found myself teaching in a Massachusetts public high school, similar to the one I attended as a teenager, craving world travel.