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

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My students engaged in this project mostly during remote and hybrid learning, and some adaptations for accessibility had to be made. They looked closely at small details, such as the nuances in buildings, landmarks, and cultural patterns to fill empty spaces. They were a little bit delighted by a grown-up being a little naughty and drawing on maps," she told CBS News.

I know the region I’m looking at, but don’t have a sense of scale, how close this might be to the sea, or to the north, or to Pakistan. She joined Art21 Educators in 2018 and still enjoys the ongoing relationships, support, and inspiration from the Art21 community.

It connotes an apparently non-human, or extra-human, position of agency, purporting to be fully objective. Some of these viewpoints are already in existence in popular discourse – the god’s eye view, the drone’s eye view, the antipodes; some have arisen in critical and theoretical discourse – the zenithal gaze (Söderström, 1996), panoptic viewing (Foucault, 1977), the Apollonian gaze (Cosgrove, 2001); while the view from nowhere is an idea that has quite a broad popular usage – to describe the concept of an objective, disinterested view [vii]. This 1961 Cuba also stands alongside, as I read, the Afghanistan of 2017, and its geographical and political relationships with the Cuba of 2017, and the undepicted place to the east, as it were, of this map painting. Some approaches emphasise the map as a graphic representation first and foremost, troubling the inclusion of ‘maps’ that also display three-dimensionality, or that rely on gesture and ephemeral materials, or what Fredric Jameson has influentially termed cognitive mapping [iv]; other definitions foreground the map’s common function as a navigational device, causing difficulty with how to classify images commonly regarded as maps but without a navigational function, such as medieval world maps, mappaemundi.

Looking again at Targets, near the words ‘MATA KHAN’, and near the meeting point of what I take to be a line of latitude and a line of longitude, but which looks like crosshairs, I also read the word ‘SOLTANI’. The paper chosen for these pieces are signs and advertisements found in the neighborhoods that he depicts.

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We work with local printing partners to produce our prints closest to you, reducing carbon emmisons by 67%. 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. The view from nowhere is re-performed as a viewpoint that is not objective, or disinterested, but instead is actively constitutive of viewing relations that enable political and military domination. The term ‘synoptic’ places more emphasis on the process of synopsis, or compilation, while the term ‘view from nowhere’ places more emphasis on what is effected by the resulting image. A 3D map of Manhattan by Luis DilgerGerman designer Dilger took OpenStreetMap’s data of various cities and visualised the satellite-based information using DEM Earth in Cinema 4D, transforming them into 3D prints.Many authors writing in this field contribute to an unfolding debate as to how we may usefully define ‘the map’. In terms of legibility, the Apollonian gaze renders visible the earth as a whole, as an entity in space. It has sparked a bit of debate and conversation with my family about the places I’ve chosen to feature. The idea of remote viewing is a recurring idea in the book, and here indicates my own method of viewing, online and through documentation, rather than in person. in reference to views of the whole earth, picking up the sense of ‘forming a synopsis’, or overview, but without a determinate meaning.