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Maps, Everyday Ephemera, and Watercolor Drawings Record José Naranja’s...
All images © José Naranja, shared with permission Rather than scrolling through photos from a recent trip, José Naranja (previously) remembers his travels through exceptionally detailed sketchbooks...
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Lidar-Derived Aerial Maps Reveal the Dramatic Meandering Changes in River...
Lidar-derived image of the meandering Alabama River in Alabama, USA. The Cahaba River joins the Alabama in the upper center of the image. All images © Dan Coe, shared with permission Dan Coe...
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Faith XLVII Engages Humanity’s Shadows Through the Delicate Interplay of...
“A Study of Light and Shadow V.” All images © Faith XLVII, shared with permission Artist Faith XLVII (previously) describes a recent body of work as “a kind of scratching into the chiaroscuro of our...
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More than 1,600 Hand-Drawn Animals Roam the Earth in Anton Thomas’s ‘Wild...
All images © Anton Thomas, shared with permission Taking three years from start to finish, Anton Thomas’s meticulously detailed map takes us on a zoological journey around the globe. “I’ve imagined...
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Ryan Villamael’s Cascading Floral Sculptures Reconsider Maps and Identity
“Locus Amoenus.” All images courtesy of Silverlens, Manila/New York, shared with permission Gathered in bunches and trailing like vines, Ryan Villamael’s paper-cut sculptures cascade through niches of...
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Mark Powell’s Pen Drawings Accentuate the Memories Etched into Faces and...
All images © Mark Powell, shared with permission In Mark Powell’s tender portraits, crinkled eyes and foreheads creased with age mirror highways and scrawled cursive notes. The artist (previously)...
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Glass Sculptures by Norwood Viviano Cast Iconic City Skylines Atop Emblems of...
“I find myself looking at the world as a surveyor—telling stories through objects,” says Norwood Viviano, whose kiln-cast glass sculptures map iconic city skylines through each location’s recognizable...
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Enigmatic Phenomena and Galactic Shapes Revolve in Shane Drinkwater’s Cosmic...
For Queensland-based artist Shane Drinkwater, self-imposed restrictions provide a key starting point for works he creates in ink, pen, acrylic, and collage—always in a square format measuring about 50...
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Faith XLVII Sews Textiles Made from World Maps and Currency to Explore the...
In our ever more globalized society, we have technology to thank for the unprecedented connectivity we enjoy, both in our ability to fly or sail practically anywhere and have face-to-face video chats...
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In a Baltimore Exhibition, the Transformative Potential of Today’s Griots...
Stories have long helped us to understand the world and our place within it. For the western Sahel in West Africa, storytellers known as griots are often responsible for sharing oral histories and...
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