Rusted Map Marks

I've created a rusted print of a web of roads that I made from wire that I sandwhiched between damp fabric and paper.

Recording My Journey

While I visiting Oxford and London I did a lot of travelling around to do my walking drawing, I took this oppertunity to record where I walked around the cities.

This is the start of the next step in my work as I'll branch off to journeys and how I can present them.

Printing & Sewing with Maps

From cut out maps I began to look at printing through cut out maps and after collage I thought this could be a good point to persist with looking at various types of backgrounds. I've tried using cellulose thinner on fabrics and multiple ways I can use a variety of materials together. I also tested printing on to translucent fabric, that work pretty well and i'm intending on using these again. I tried out two types of patterns to print; the first is of a cut out map and the other of a pattern that is related to maps like a pirate map.

I've sewn into a couple of my printed pieces and I liked how I sewn along the roads of one that it gave me the idea to make a quilt doing the same.

I loved how my quilted piece turned out I wanted to do more with this idea that I tried sewing into maps. After sewing along the roads didn't make much of an effect on the map I tried sewing along the contour lines of a map. After a whole day at the sewing machine I was amazed how beautiful the pattern created was. I'd like to copy this further but I all them lines are too complicated to translate without having the map with the line work into.

Collages with Maps: Peter Clark & Jerry Gretzinger

Dog Collage - Peter Clark
I looked briefly at college by creating one containing pieces of map like peter clark, after doing that it seemed obvious to add more to the piece by linking all the roads from each slice of map together to create my own personal made up map.

This reminded me of the work by Jerry Gretzinger, which started by a doodle on a sheet of typing paper while working in a ball bearing factory. This is now still being added to as an ongoing project describing an imaginary landscape called The Gretzinger Map (1963-Present). when he'd get to the edge of the page he'd add another continuing on. He uses I huge variety of media including collage within creating all (as of june 2008) nineteen hundred contigious panels.

'The Gretzinger Map' - Jerry Gretzinger

I like how this is an ongoing project and that it's all made up. It reminds me of when I was younger when I'd create my own pictures of fictional places and playing platform games on the playstation 2 like grand theft auto. it's obvious he's put alot of imagination and research into making these maps incorporate towns and cities with museums, government buildings, churches, parks, railroad stations and airports.

Jerry's Map (Video)

Cut Out Map Photography

I created my own cut out maps like Karen O'leary and used them in photos in front of different backgrounds. I walked round my village looking for textured backgrounds, views of roads or things related to travel to take photos of through my cut out maps.
My next idea in shining light through them to make shadows.

Karen O'leary: Cut Maps

Karen O'leary creates these hand cut city prints across the world. O'leary cuts out all of the land leaving delicate webs of streets. I was instantly drawn to these, such a simple idea that I wish I thought of first. I also liked how they cast shadows and that you can view through the piece.