Gregor Turk: “I always focused on the map’s ability to simultaneously represent and distort reality.”
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Atlanta visual artist, sculptor and “topophiliac” Gregor Turk on walking 250 miles of the U.S./Canada border, creating landscapes with clay, wood and recycled inner tubes, turning Landsat imagery into hundreds of hand-painted ceramic tiles, making 1:1 scale maps, chasing phantom streets, fighting real estate developers’ efforts to erase Blandtown, confusing Beltline tourists with “misinformation” wayfinding maps, and “pushing the idea of what a map can be.” See his work at gregorturk.com “Latitudes + Legends”: 86 feet wide and 18" tall, ~200x handmade ceramic tiles  “49th Parallel”: traveling the rule-straight part of the U.S./Canada border  “Monumap: West Poplar (Saskatchewan)”  “Misinformation”: Atlanta toponymy atop Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans topography  Rubber maps  Blandtown “Choke II”  Peirce quincuncial projection, rendered in clay  “Phalanx” Andrew Lynch’s “Unbuilt Highways” maps The Bellman's Map from Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark  Lordy Rodriguez  Maya Lin The Center for Land Use Interpretation  You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination   The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography  Mapping Reality: An Exploration of Cultural Cartographies The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society Need maps for your org’s reports, decks, walls and events? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Radiant Maps⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
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