Saturday, February 27, 2010

More Maps of Every Place I Can Remember

A few more places that I remember:

 
I don't evidently don't remember very much of that one.


The strange collection of shapes mid-top of this one is supposed to be a playground, but I found that as I was drawing my memory of how parts connected shifted and blurred.






















Please pardon the off-kilter nature of these photos. These drawings are currently in a sketchbook, though ideally Maps of Every Place I Can Remember would be displayed differently.  I think I've mentioned it before as an internet-based project. If displayed on a wall, I imagine an expansive smear of maps all pinned overlapping and crowding one another, like the crazy collage on the wall of a servial killer in a movie, or the committed detective.

7 comments:

  1. I like them, though sadly, I can only recognize one...

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  2. Hmmm, I assume you mean the second one? You should also be able to get the third one, although, I can see how it would be difficult, since I am basically inventing a visual language here that is part cartographic, part representational, and somewhat just dictated by what I think looks nice.

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  3. Is the first one my childhood apartment and parking lot?

    -Molly

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  4. Yes! I'm glad you got that...

    How's it stack up to your memory?

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  5. If the blob in the upper-right is the avocado tree, I remember it being a bit further back, in the corner after the parking lot ended.

    PS I like these. Have you checked out either of those map books yet?

    -Molly

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  6. Really dig the idea of you displaying maps all over a gallery a la serial killer. It would go quite nicely with some razor blades sewn into underwear, you know, for the stuff you DON'T return to the store....

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  7. This makes me think of how vague my own visual memory is. But since I don't really know these places, the black and white drawings don't really make me have a sense of what is cloudy for you. I'm curious how you might represent that in a full painting, or maybe a diorama, or how about an installation???

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