Showing posts with label Map Relief Artists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Map Relief Artists. Show all posts
Friday, July 28, 2017
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Adriane Colburn, Artist, based in San Francisco and New York
Artist Statement
Over the past several years I have developed a series of installations based on the complex relationship between human infrastructure, earth systems, technology and the natural world. In these projects, large cut paper wall-works are in conversation with manipulated objects, photographs, drawings, video and projected light.
My installations are extracted from the data, images and video I have collected while participating in scientific expeditions to remote, wild places such as the arctic and amazon. The work reflects on these far-flung environments and the overall state of nature in an age where few stones remain unturned by man. I am particularly interested in romanticized notions of wilderness, the alteration of nature by industry and climate change and the relationships between scientific exploration and exploitation. In participating in these expeditions and generating work from the aftermath, I am reckoning with how our thirst to understand and visualize a landscape can irrevocably disrupt it.
The large wall-works are made from photographs and drawings that have been transformed through a system of physical removal that results in abstracted images that are informed by voids as much as by positive marks. These fragile and often sprawling constructions are frequently paired with more direct or physically weighty fare in the form of found objects and imagery that points more frankly to the subject matter. At the core of all my work is a fascination with the way that our attempts to make sense of the world around us through maps, data and pictures result in abstractions that are simultaneously informative, formless and utterly ambiguous.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Beatus Map, 1109
This world map comes from a beautifully illuminated copy of Beatus of Liébana's ‘Commentary on the Apocalypse of St John’, a religious text from the 8th century held in high esteem by medieval Christians. This copy was made at the Spanish Monastery of San Domingo de Silos in 1106, a time when the monastery’s scriptorium was producing some of its finest work.
Adam and Eve are shown with the serpent against a dark green background representing the verdant Garden of Eden.
Its picture of a world centred round the Mediterranean Sea is virtually unchanged since the 8th century and reflects an even older world-view inherited from Roman times. Beyond the Red Sea is a hint of an undiscovered fourth continent that some ancient thinkers - among them, Pliny, the 1st-century Roman author - had suggested must exist in order to balance the known land masses of Europe, Asia and Africa.
The History of Cartography by Harley and Woodward
AN ITALIAN CHART IN THE CATALAN STYLE. Made in 1482 by Grazioso Benincasa, (...) The repeated coats of arms beneath a cardinal's hat are those of Raffaello Riario, for whom the chart was made. n Size of the original: 71 x 127.5 cm
COSMOGRAPHICAL MAP: THE LAND OF EGYPT WITH THE GODDESS NUT. South is at the top inthis cosmographic representation found on the cover of a stone sarcophagus from Saqqara. It dates from the Thirtieth Dynasty, ca. 350 B.C. Diameter of the interior circle: 72 cm. The god of the air, Shu, can be seen below the stars, above the circular earth.
RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES FROM HOMER'S ILIAD.
After Malcolm M. Willcock, A Companion to the lliad (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976)
A visualization of the shield of Achilles, described in Homer's Iliad. It is thought to represent a type of cosmographical chart,
bringing together elements of the natural and human world, although not in a spatial relationship.
Drawn by the Majorcan Gabriel de Valseca in 1447, this style is midway between the two extremes of Catalan flamboyance and Italian austerity. Flags, town vignettes, and wind disks are typically Catalan, the lack of inland detail typically Italian. Size of the original: 59 x 94 cm.
COMPOSITE PETROGLYPH MAP FROM BEDOLINA, VALCAMONICA. (North Italy) The earlier figures and later additions have been removed to reveal a complex topographical map.
Saturday, March 4, 2017
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Carrie Dickens, Designer
home/here
Even when it is not possible to go home, it is comforting to know where it is. Also important is finding ways to feel more at home, when away from home. For a lover of the green countryside, being uprooted to London was difficult until I found green spaces to breathe in. London is dotted with green oases; it is just a matter of finding them. Carrying this pebble in my pocket, I have a printable map of the parks of London. On a sunny day I line up the predominant ray with the hour on the reverse ‘sundial', and I am re-oriented to find my way to a place more like home. And just in case, the bearing line points the way home.
home/here was created for the British Art Medal Society (BAMS) student medal competition 2014 and won the grand prize.
Photography courtesy British Museum
Thursday, October 27, 2016
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