" Vouloir nous brule et pouvoir nous détruit, mais savoir laisse notre faible organisation dans un perpetuel calme."
Ed Fairburn is a figurative artist who uses maps and atlases as the base for his pieces. Fairburn uses a wide range of mediums and surfaces to produce his work which allows him to truly free himself to explore a wealth of ideas and concepts.
Heavenly Bodies, ink and pencil on Antique Celestial Map from 1880, 35x42cm (2013).
Franck Ernewein lights up the world in a real-time visualization of tweets around the globe. This French web designer shows the world in a new light, by dropping bright light pixel at the tweet location when a visiting Tweetping.The image is constantly changing that grows to look like a nighttime satellite shot that shows bright lights over the world most developed areas.
Matthew Cusick’s horse
extrusion map,
waves by Matthew Cusick
Our physical bodies are beautiful structures full of detail, and they hold the stories that haunt and mold our lives. The lines on a road map are beautifully similar to the lines that cover the surface of the human body.
In my work involving maps, as I remove the landmasses from the silhouetted individuals I am further removing the figure’s identity, and what remains is a delicate skin-like structure. Through this process, specific individuals become ambiguous and hauntingly ghost-like, similar to the memories they represent.
Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki has made a radio from an electronic circuit board that’s arranged to look like the London tube map.
