Tidying up the map
January 25, 2011 § 6 Comments
French artist Armelle Caron deconstructs city plan maps. Or rather, tidies up maps.
The maps have an amazing visual effect. It is also very interesting to notice the difference between the variability of city blocks in Istanbul and the geometric homogeneity of New York, for example.
Istanbul by Armelle Caron
New York by Armelle Caron
via pinterest
[...] Obsession number 3: maps. We’ve roamed the streets of New York through Hip-Hop lyrics. We’ve revisited our childhood homes. We’ve compared our countries to the rest of the world. And we finished things off by completely deconstructing the map. [...]
[...] know of our passion for maps and, most of all, of their deconstructions. Besides Armelle Caron, Matthew Cusick loves to play with maps. In his series Map Works, he has created beautiful collages [...]
[...] a world defined by entropy I can sense a trend of organizing things neatly. We saw maps that have been tidied up, we saw the insides of a typing machine aligned perfectly and now more things get organized [...]
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