Map Art
Where we come from, where we have lived, and where we live now.
I’m interested in how those places give us a sense of belonging, and how our histories overlap through the places we share.
Two places, one history.
Amsterdam and Los Angeles.
Illustrative composition
A place in common.
Different lives can pass through the same place. A familiar street becomes part of more than one history.
Several histories, a shared place.
Three imagined histories meet in Amsterdam.
Illustrative composition
About the drawings.
These two studies explore the idea using real street geometry and imagined histories. Each place is fitted independently. The connecting lines are authored gestures.
Amsterdam uses a canal-ring extract. Los Angeles, Pasadena and Long Beach use cropped structural networks from Los Angeles County. The linework combines street traces with the Map Art renderer’s topology-selected handwriting.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under ODbL 1.0. The underlying Map Art project draws architectural inspiration from City Roads.
