MAPPING

A collection of systems, structures and schemes that can be used as a rudimentary basis to begin to explore links between literary and visual pursuits and the schemata that are latent in our personal geographies, the cosmos and all else inbetween. A basis to begin a consideration of how creative production seeks to grasp what it means to be in the world.

Matthew Picton’s Map Sculptures of Cities Made of Books about the City

Jerusalem created from The New Testament, The Torah, The Armenian Bible and The Koran

Dresden in 1945, made of Wagner’s score for The Ring, 2010

Portland created from the covers and text of the novel The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula LaGuin and the DVD covers of the films Dante’s Peak and Volcano; the work has been smoked.

London in 1666, created from the book covers of The Plague Years by Daniel Defoe

Dublin on June 16, 1904, created from text from James Joyce’s Ulysses

Lower Manhattan created from headlines that accompanied the 2001 World Trade Center attacks and DVD covers of the film Towering Inferno and book covers of the novel The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

Las Vegas in 1972, created from texts from Hunter S. Thompson’s ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’

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